FILM DIRECTOR

Eldar Ryazanov

1927 - 2015

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Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (Russian: Эльдар Александрович Рязанов; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eldar Ryazanov is the 361st most popular film director (down from 311th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Russia (down from 571st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 361 out of 2,041. Before him are Emilio Fernández, Fernando Meirelles, Makoto Shinkai, Edward Yang, Alexander Sokurov, and Héctor Babenco. After him are Veljko Bulajić, Chris Sanders, Lotte Reiniger, Alexandre Astruc, Veit Harlan, and Édouard Molinaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 120. Before him are Marvin Harris, William Labov, Jorge Batlle, Wadie Haddad, Sabah, and Carlos José Castilho. After him are Raymond Chow, Robert Plutchik, Óscar Míguez, Gordon Cooper, Prince Charles of Luxembourg, and Colin Davis. Among people deceased in 2015, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 107. Before him are Yaşar Kemal, Jaakko Hintikka, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Omar Karami, Arsen Dedić, and Dean Smith. After him are Philippe Honoré, Jenő Buzánszky, Kemal Monteno, Jacob Bekenstein, Ieng Thirith, and Shigeru Mizuki.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 651 out of 3,761. Before him are Valery Bryusov (1873), Alexandre Benois (1870), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), and Dmitry Muratov (1961). After him are Yaroslav of Tver (1230), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), and Alexander Bortnikov (1951).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 11. Before him are Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Elem Klimov (1933), Leonid Gaidai (1923), and Alexander Sokurov (1951). After him are Ladislas Starevich (1882), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Mikhail Romm (1901), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yakov Protazanov (1881), and Boris Barnet (1902).

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