Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is rightfully considered a cult Russian film director. His creations are comedy paintings. "Beware of the car" . "Garage" . "Office romance" And many others became the personification of the Soviet comedy of the 60-70s. Eldar Ryazanov was born on November 18, 1927 in Samara in a family of ordinary Soviet workers. When little Eldar was only 3 years old, his parents broke up and his mother was engaged in the further education of the boy. Since childhood, the boy was more

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is rightfully considered a cult Russian film director. His creations are comedy paintings. "Beware of the car" . "Garage" . "Office romance" And many others became the personification of the Soviet comedy of the 60-70s.

Eldar Ryazanov was born on November 18, 1927 in Samara in a family of ordinary Soviet workers. When little Eldar was only 3 years old, his parents broke up and his mother was engaged in the further education of the boy.
Since childhood, the boy was addicted to reading. Influenced by books about sea travel and fearless captains, he had a dream to enter the Odessa Nautical School, which unfortunately or fortunately failed to come to life. Instead of a career as a sailor, Eldar Ryazanov enters VGIK and shows himself to be a capable and talented student.

Brilliantly defending his thesis in 1950, Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov gives a lot of energy to work in documentary cinema. His works of those years received rave reviews of film critics, and the film “Sakhalin Island” (1954) received an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955.

Subsequently, under the influence of the famous Soviet comediographer, head of the Mosfilm film studio. Eldar Ryazanov tried his hand at staging comedy paintings. His first film, shot in the humorous genre, "Carnival Night" It was a resounding success. All subsequent pictures - "Please put in a word about the poor hussar" . "Cruel romance" . "Irony of fate or With light steam" - became evidence of the versatility of directorial talent, bringing the director the ardent love of several generations of viewers.

The film director passed away on November 30, 2015.