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Eldar Riazanov is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Russe born on 18 november 1927 at Samara (Russie)

Eldar Riazanov

Eldar Riazanov
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Birth name Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov
Nationality Russie
Birth 18 november 1927 at Samara (Russie)
Death 29 november 2015 (at 88 years)
Awards People's Artist of the USSR, USSR State Prize

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (Russian: Эльда́р Алекса́ндрович Ряза́нов; b. 18 November 1927) is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union.

He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1984, and received the USSR State Prize in 1977. He won the Nika Award in the category Best Director in 1991. The asteroid 4258 Ryazanov is named after him.

Among his most famous films are Carnival Night (1955), Hussar Ballad (1962), Beware of the Car (1966), The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979), and A Cruel Romance (1984). Ryazanov's main genre is tragicomedy.

Biography

Le réalisateur est le fils d'agent du Service des délégués commerciaux de l'URSS à Téhéran, Alexandre Riazanov, et son épouse Sophia Schustermann (1902-1969). La famille habite au n 120, rue Frounze à Samara. Peu après, ils s'installent à Moscou. Les parents divorcent au milieu des années 1930. Eldar est élevé par le second mari de sa mère, Léon Kopp (1899-1985), cadre à l'Institut de géologie de l'Académie des sciences d'URSS.

Il fait ses études à l'Institut national de la cinématographie, dans la classe de maître de Grigori Kozintsev. Diplômé en 1950, il travaille pendant cinq ans au studio central du film documentaire de Moscou, où il réalise les épisodes des séries de communication télévisuelle Pionerya («Пионерия»), Novosti dnya («Новости дня»), Sovetski sport («Советский спорт»), ainsi que plusieurs courts-métrages documentaires. À partir de 1955, sa carrière se poursuit à Mosfilm dont le directeur artistique de l'époque Ivan Pyriev l'encourage à s'essayer à la comédie. Riazanov remporte un immense succès public et critique avec son premier film dans ce genre, La Nuit de Carnaval, qui arrive à la 1 place par le nombre de spectateurs en 1956 (48,64 millions) et propulse ses acteurs principaux, les jeunes Lioudmila Gourtchenko et Youri Belov, au rang de célébrités nationales. Riazanov s'affirme à partir de ce moment comme l'un des plus grands réalisateurs de son époque. En collaboration avec le scénariste Émile Braguinski, il signe les films devenus de grands classiques du cinéma soviétique comme Attention, automobile (1966), Romance du bureau (1977) ou encore Une gare pour deux (1982), qui sera projeté au festival de Cannes 1983.

Parallèlement à sa carrière de réalisateur Riazanov présente l'émission de télévision consacrée au cinéma Kinopanorama en 1979-1985.

En 1993, il lance avec Youri Nikouline l'émission de télévision humoristique Club du Perroquet Blanc (Белый попугай).

En 2007, sur la chaîne de télévision publique Rossiya K, il présente un nouveau projet Chez Eldar Riazanov («В гостях у Эльдара Рязанова»), une série de rencontres en direct avec les invités du monde de cinéma russe.

La santé du réalisateur devient précaire les dernières années. Il est hospitalisé à plusieurs reprises en 2014 et en 2015. Il meurt de l'insuffisance cardiaque le 30 novembre 2015. Il sera inhumé au cimetière de Novodevitchi.

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Filmography of Eldar Riazanov (19 films)

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Actor

The Irony of Fate. The Sequel, 1h55
Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yury Yakovlev, Constantin Khabenski, Elizaveta Boïarskaïa, Sergueï Bezroukov
Roles сосед Кости в самолете
Rating50% 2.500732.500732.500732.500732.50073
The characters from the first film now have children, who have managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. However, this story is not simply a remake of the original movie. Firstly, all of Lukashin's adventures were accidental, whereas here everything is done according to a plan thought up by Pavlik (a friend of Lukashin's). His idea is to help his friend Evgeniy with his loneliness. To this end, he dispatches Lukashin's son Kostya to Petersburg, where he acts in the same manner as his father 30 years ago. In flat 12 he meets Nadejda (who is actually the daughter of Nadejda from the first movie). She has a fiancé called Irakliy, a businessman. Kostantin's task is to lure Iracliy away from the flat, then wait for Nadejda's mother to come; he then makes her call Evgeniy Lukashin. Pavlik persuades Evgeniy to go to St. Petersburg. The plot becomes a story of two fights over a woman: Konstantin vs. Irakliy and Evgeniy vs. Ippolit. Finally Lukashins win the competition, because Irakliy turns out to be too dull for Nadya and Nadejda understands that she was never in love with Ippolit.
Promised Heaven, 2h5
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lia Akhedjakova, Valentin Gaft, Oleg Basilashvili, Svetlana Nemoliaïeva, Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva, Vyacheslav Nevinny
Rating71% 3.5753153.5753153.5753153.5753153.575315
Near one of Moscow's train stations, on a landfill site, a group of vagrants lives. Due to a variety of reasons, once prosperous people have lost their jobs, homes, loved ones and began to live on a garbage site. Among them are: Anphemia, a talented artist, and her brother Fedor Yelistratov, who was repressed in the days of Stalinism. Solomon, a former engineer, who lost his job because his family emigrated to Israel. The former cook and housemaid Katya, who was beaten and kicked out of her house by her drunkard son. The head of those unfortunate people is "President" - a former party worker Dmitry Loginov, who like his friend Fedor, was in Stalin's camps.
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna, 1h24
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Drama
Actors Marina Neïolova, Eldar Riazanov
Roles sosed
Rating73% 3.678213.678213.678213.678213.67821
…After the final exams at a regular school, three schoolchildren understand that they have not passed the exams, and it can break their future career. Fraudulently the teenagers enter the house of their teacher Yelena Sergeevna and demand the key to the safe in which the examination papers are stored. At first, schoolchildren try to persuade Yelena Sergeevna, then they come to bribery and blackmail. But the high-minded teacher does not agree to the deal with her conscience and tries to explain to her schoolchildren all the meanness and baseness of their actions...
Station for Two, 2h21
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Oleg Basilashvili, Lioudmila Gourtchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordioukova, Eldar Riazanov, Mikhaïl Kononov
Roles Railroad Supervisor (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8929153.8929153.8929153.8929153.892915
There are three main heroes in this movie: Vera, a waitress; Platon, a pianist; and... a train station where these two people met. The differences in the heroes’ characters and professions, the plight that Platon found himself in (he is to be arrested and undergo trial) trigger a host of both amusing and sad situations which serve as a backdrop for their unfolding love. Platon is innocent of the crime he is accused of. He simply took the blame for his wife’s driving over a pedestrian. But this is known only to Platon’s wife and Vera in whom he confided. However, after the verdict has been passed, Platon’s life is of no interest to his wife, although Vera is ready to wait for his release.
The Garage
The Garage (1979)

Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Iya Savvina, Lia Akhedjakova, Georgi Burkov, Svetlana Nemoliaïeva, Valentin Gaft, Andrey Myagkov
Roles sleeping man
Rating79% 3.9895953.9895953.9895953.9895953.989595
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
Office Romance, 2h31
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Andrey Myagkov, Alissa Freindlich, Oleg Basilashvili, Svetlana Nemoliaïeva, Lyudmila Ivanova, Lia Akhedjakova
Roles пассажир автобуса
Rating81% 4.096344.096344.096344.096344.09634
The action takes place in Moscow in 1976. Anatoly Yefremovich Novoseltsev, a clumsy single father of two sons, works at a statistical bureau. His boss is a strict unmarried woman, Ludmila Prokofievna Kalugina, nicknamed "our frump" by her subordinates. She has some self-confidence problems, hidden behind her gloomy humorless demeanor and plain old-fashioned look. Novoseltsev’s colleagues consider him as a smart and experienced worker. He dreams about a promotion and a raise that would help him provide for his children, but he is too timid to talk to his boss about it. His former classmate and old friend, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, recently appointed assistant manager of the institution, suggests appointing Novoseltsev as a head of the light industry department, but Kalugina rejects it believing that Novoseltsev is not good enough for the position. Then, following Samokhvalov's advice, Novoseltsev unwillingly tries to flirt with "the Frump" at a party in Samokhvalov's apartment in order to "get into contact" with her. Feeling extremely uneasy he tries in vain to make conversation with her - talks about random things such as picking berries and mushrooms, reads poetry, shows off his singing and dancing abilities (in a very comical way), but Kalugina gets annoyed and severely criticizes all his attempts to impress her. Eventually Novoseltsev becomes frustrated, flares up and tells Kalugina right in her face that he considers her dry, inhuman and heartless.
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!, 3h4
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Alexandre Schirwindt, Alexander Belyavsky, Georgi Burkov, Yury Yakovlev
Roles пассажир в самолете
Rating80% 4.0434054.0434054.0434054.0434054.043405
The key subplot is the drab uniformity of Brezhnev era public architecture. This is made explicit in a humorous animated prologue, in which architects are overruled by politicians and red tape. This results in the entire planet being polluted with identical, unimaginative multistory apartment buildings of the sort that can, in fact, be found in every city, town, and suburb across the former Soviet Union. These buildings are uniform right down to the door key of each apartment. The rest of the film is live-action.
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia, 1h38
Directed by Francesco Prosperi, Eldar Riazanov
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Andreï Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Tano Cimarosa, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Olga Arosseva, Gigi Ballista
Roles Doctor on the airplane wing
Rating75% 3.7954753.7954753.7954753.7954753.795475
In the hospital in Rome, Italy, an old Russian emigrant woman dies. Dying, she tells her granddaughter that she has hidden her treasures in Leningrad under the lion. Unfortunately, beside her granddaughter she was heard also by a solid doctor, 2 male nurses, an Italian mafioso and a hobbling man. After that they all fly to Russia by the same flight (of course none of them tells the others that he's flying to Russia for the treasures). Having some adventures in the airplane because of mafioso, they all arrive to Leningrad and begin to dig under every lion statue in the city.
Old Men: Robbers, 1h27
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Yuri Nikulin, Eldar Riazanov, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Olga Arosseva, Georgi Burkov, Andreï Mironov
Rating73% 3.693723.693723.693723.693723.69372
Old detective Nikolay Myachikov is being retired by his boss Fedyaev. The official version is that Myachikov solved no crimes during last two months. But the real reason is that Fedyaev's boss wants Myachikov's position to go to another man, Proskudin.
Give Me a Complaints Book, 1h31
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Comedy
Actors Oleg Borisov, Larisa Golubkina, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Rina Zelionaïa, Yuri Nikulin
Roles главный редактор газеты «Юность» (нет в титрах)
Rating69% 3.486283.486283.486283.486283.48628
A group of young journalists accidentally walk into the restaurant "Dandelion". The atmosphere in the restaurant is extremely unhealthy: rude waitresses, thieving barmaid, wretched interior, ridiculous restaurant singer and deputy director Kutaytsev who is constantly drunk and encourages this mess. However, the young and energetic director of the restaurant Tatiana Shumova is trying, unsuccessfully, to deal with shortcomings of the restaurant that she was entrusted with .

Director

Promised Heaven, 2h5
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lia Akhedjakova, Valentin Gaft, Oleg Basilashvili, Svetlana Nemoliaïeva, Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva, Vyacheslav Nevinny
Rating71% 3.5753153.5753153.5753153.5753153.575315
Near one of Moscow's train stations, on a landfill site, a group of vagrants lives. Due to a variety of reasons, once prosperous people have lost their jobs, homes, loved ones and began to live on a garbage site. Among them are: Anphemia, a talented artist, and her brother Fedor Yelistratov, who was repressed in the days of Stalinism. Solomon, a former engineer, who lost his job because his family emigrated to Israel. The former cook and housemaid Katya, who was beaten and kicked out of her house by her drunkard son. The head of those unfortunate people is "President" - a former party worker Dmitry Loginov, who like his friend Fedor, was in Stalin's camps.