Birthday of Eldar Ryazanov

On November 18, 1927 in Samara, in the family of Alexander Semyonovich Ryazanov, a former participant in the Civil War, and later - an employee of the Soviet trade mission in Persia, and Sofya Mikhailovna (nee Shusterman) a boy was born who was named Eldar.

Eldar Ryazanov in his film “Give Me a Complaints Book”, 1965.

Today, many articles, books and other publications have been written about Eldar Ryazanov. Yes, and Eldar Ryazanov himself wrote a lot of books, one of which - “Unsumpted Results” - I really love. There is no need to retell the contents of all these publications; many have read them.

Carnival Night. 1956. Movie's Rating - 7,913. 840th Rank in the Golden Thousand.

Ryazanov's film "Carnival Night" accompanied me, and probably all my peers, literally from early childhood: it was necessarily included in the program of school film season ticket, which was given to us at school annually for the period of winter school holidays, and also for many years an integral element of the New Year television program.

Watch Out for the Automobile. 1966. Movie's Rating - 8,167. 512th Rank in the Golden Thousand.

And since the mid-70s, sometimes in return, sometimes in addition to the "Carnival night", the New Year's television program as a mandatory element began to include the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!". And so it was before the beginning of Gorbachev's struggle against alcohol.

Hussar Ballad. 1962. Movie's Rating - 7,949. 795th Rank in the Golden Thousand.

So, we can say that most of those born in our country in the third quarter of the twentieth century were raised by mothers, fathers and Eldar Ryazanov.

Office Romance. 1977. Movie's Rating - 8,389. 371st Rank in the Golden Thousand.

Many people know that Eldar Ryazanov was a documentary film director, according to the qualification assigned to him at the graduation of VGIK (with honors). But popular fame and love brought him feature films made for both film and television. Since our channel is devoted exclusively to cinema, such television masterpieces as, for example, “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, or "Say the word about the poor hussar" are excluded from our consideration.

Eldar Ryazanov in the film "Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia", 1973. Movie's Rating - 8,042. 657th Rank in the Golden Thousand.

But Eldar Alexandrovich made a lot of “pure” feature films, namely: he shot 21 feature films on his own, one film “Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia” was shot together with the Italian film director Franco Prosperi, and another novel “How to Become a Robinson” - filmed for the film almanac "Absolutely Seriously".

Eldar Ryazanov in his film "The Garage", 1979. Movie's Rating - 8,019. 683rd Rank in the Golden Thousand.

Of the total number of films shot by Eldar Ryazanov, 8 movies entered the Golden Thousand. And this allowed Eldar Ryazanov to enter the list of the 100 greatest Directors of world cinema, compiled by FilmGourmand.

Eldar Ryazanov in his film "A Railway Station for Two", 1982. Movie's Rating - 8,117. 569th Rank in the Golden Thousand.

As usual, in commemoration of the birthday of the great and beloved by many residents of our country, Eldar Ryazanov, we would like to remind you of shots from his best films included in the Golden Thousand.

A Cruel Romance. 1984. Movie's Rating - 8,08. 609th Rank in the Golden Thousand.

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