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Eldar Ryazanov

Soviet and Russian film director (1927-2015) · Russia · On the map · Directors · Died at 88

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries.

Eldar Ryazanov is read about 647 times a day, in 48 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2015Died30 November 20152008Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd classAward2006Nika Lifetime Achievement AwardAwardAndersen. Life Without LoveFilm, 2006Director, Writer2000Old HagsFilm, Director, Writer1996Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd classAward1993To RememberSeries, NarratorКлуб «Белый попугай»Series, 19931991Promised HeavenFilm, Director, Writer1987Forgotten Tune for the FluteFilm, Director, Writer1984People's Artist of the USSRAwardRuthless RomanceFilm, 1984Director, Writer1980Say a Word for the Poor HussarFilm, Director, Writer1976The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!Film, Director, Writer1973ColleaguesFilm, Writer1968Literature LessonFilm, Producer1965Give Me a Complaints BookFilm, Director1958Girl without an AddressFilm, Director1955Spring VoicesFilm, Director1951Newsreels No. 58Film, Director1927Born18 November 1927

People around Eldar

  • Office Romance 1977
  • Beware of the Car! 1966
  • Ruthless Romance 1984
  • Station for Two 1983
  • The Garage 1979

Filmography 40

107 credits on file

Television 3

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class2008
Nika Lifetime Achievement Award2006
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class1996
People's Artist of the USSR1984
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR
Knight of the Legion of Honour
USSR State Prize
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Order of Honour
TEFI
Nika Award
Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Roman triumph

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2015 · aged 88