Eldar Ryazanov
Also Known As: Эльдар Рязанов
Biography: Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eldar Ryazanov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Samara, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Birthday: November 18, 1927
Deathday: November 29, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Overview: A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Old Hags
Overview: Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Happy New Year, Eldar Alexandrovich!
Overview: A humorous New Year's TV show dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Eldar Ryazanov. The plot parodies the 1956 film Carnival Night. The role of Ogurtsov is being tried on by Ryazanov himself.
Genres: Drama Documentary Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Overview: The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Promised Heaven
Overview: In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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A Key to the Bedroom
Overview: In the beginning of a new century the capital of Russia is just amazing and full of poets, beautiful women and arts...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Andersen. Life Without Love
Overview: Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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Hello, Fools!
Overview: Two people meet one another in a multi-million city...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-12-29
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Dear Yelena Sergeyevna
Overview: Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before the marks. Yelena Sergeyevna strongly objects...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-04-12
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Spring Voices
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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Still Waters
Overview: Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the countryside in order to spend some time with old friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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One Day of Mosfilm
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-30
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Overview: A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Overview: In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Station for Two
Overview: Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-06-06
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Give Me a Complaints Book
Overview: A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Office Romance
Overview: Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel
Overview: Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-12-21
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The Purpose of His Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-01-18
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The Garage
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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One Hour With Kozintsev
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-03-22
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The Music of Life
Overview: Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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