Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Ryazanov (1927-2015), born in Samara on 18 November 1927, graduated in 1950 from the Moscow film institute, where he had been a pupil of Grigori Kozintsev. He worked for five years at the Central Documentary Film Studio before directing, in 1956 at Mosfilm, a first fiction comedy. He often wrote his films with Emil Braginsky. Winner of the State Prize in 1977 and People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984, he also presented a film programme on television from 1979 to 1986. He died in Moscow on 30 November 2015.

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• CinemaOffice RomanceСлужебный романEldar Ryazanov · 1977Cinema