Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1927)

Eldar Ryazanov

Soviet and Russian filmmaker (1927–2015)

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.