Eldar Ryazanov presented the audience with over 20 magnificent paintings that connected several generations of the audience. To make a rating of the best films of Ryazanov is pointless, since each viewer has his favorite films of the great national director. We have compiled our list of the best films of Eldar Ryazanov and offer readers to recall the most memorable and vivid works of the master.
10. Carnival night
Opens the list of the best films of Eldar Ryazanov musical comedy "Carnival Night". This picture is of particular importance in the creative biography of the director. The comedy was a huge success and in 1956 became the leader of the Soviet film distribution. The film has a brilliant cast, which included popular actors and entertainers: Gurchenko, Filippov, Zeldin, Ilyinsky.
According to the plot of the film, young workers of the House of Culture prepared a New Year's entertainment program. But on New Year's Eve, comrade Ogurtsov, appointed acting director, forbids the performance of numbers that are too “frivolous,” in his opinion, and orders them to be replaced with “serious” performances. Young people decide to teach a bureaucrat a lesson and save a fun New Year’s program.
9. Hussar ballad
Musical comedy The Hussar Ballad continues the list of the best films of Ryazanov. The premiere of the picture was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. "Hussar Ballad" - a brilliant debut in the movie of Larisa Golubkina, who played one of the main roles.
Shurochka Azarova, brought up by two brave warriors, does not at all look like young ladies of her age. She is a very good weapon and holds tight in the saddle. The Shurochka’s groom, Lieutenant Rzhevsky, who is engaged in absentia to a girl, comes to the Azarovs estate. Having met Shurochka in a man’s carnival costume, he takes her for a relative of the bride and speaks unflattering about her. The girl is outraged by the biased attitude of the young man, but the lieutenant still liked Shurochka very much. When the estate receives news of the outbreak of World War II, the girl runs away from home in a men's dress and ends up in the headquarters of the corps. Six months later, she again meets Rzhevsky, who is at war with the enemy in a partisan detachment.
8. Watch out for the car.
Film critics consider lyrical comedy "Watch out for the car" one of the best directorial works of Ryazanov. The plot of the picture is based on the urban legend of a noble car thief who stole cars bought on dishonestly earned money by speculators and thieves of state property.
The magnificent cast, real life situations, beautifully written characters of the characters and a dynamic plot made the picture incredibly popular with the audience. Innokenty Smoktunovsky surprisingly accurately embodied the image of Yuri Detochkin - a man who notices something that others pass by indifferently.
The fact that a monument to Yuri Detochkin was erected in Samara in 2012 also speaks of spectator love for comedy.
7. Old robbers
The list of the best films of Eldar Ryazanov includes comedy "Old robbers", the main roles in which were played by Yuri Nikulin, Evgeny Evstigneev, George Burkov, Andrei Mironov and Olga Aroseva. Despite the comedy genre, the picture raises serious questions about the demand for the older generation.
Investigator Myachikov, who has reached retirement age, together with a loyal friend organizes the abduction of paintings from the museum in order to "solve" the crime and prove his indispensability.
6. The incredible adventures of Italians in Russia
"The incredible adventures of Italians in Russia" - Adventure Soviet-Italian comedy, included in the list of the best films of Ryazanov. Several Italians fly to the Soviet Union in search of treasures hidden somewhere in Leningrad. In Moscow, the guide Andrei joins them, which significantly complicates the life of the seekers of countless wealth.
5. Cruel romance
The list of the best paintings by Eldar Ryazanov includes drama "Cruel romance", one of the director’s most controversial films. This is a brilliant debut in the movie of Larisa Guzeeva. The film was a huge success with the audience, and critics reacted extremely negatively about it, accusing Ryazanov of moving away from the original version of Ostrovsky's play.
4. Say a word about poor hussar
Tragicomedy “Say a word about poor hussar” - One of the best films of Ryazanov, in which the director surprisingly accurately managed to reproduce the atmosphere of Tsarist Russia.
A hussar regiment arrives in a small provincial town. Count Merzlyaev, a hussar, comes here from St. Petersburg to check the reliability of the hussar.
3. Station for two
Melodrama “Station for two” - This is a classic of Soviet cinema and one of the best films of Ryazanov.
Another joint brilliant work of Emil Braginsky, screenwriter, and Eldar Ryazanov, “Station for Two” in 1983 entered the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival.
Plato Ryabinin gets stuck without documents at the intermediate station of the railway station. Here, under very unattractive circumstances, he meets the waitress Vera. The delay is not part of his plans, as he hurries to his father before the trial takes place. But love can descend at any moment, and neither the difference in the social status of the lovers, nor the circumstances of their meeting will stop it.
2. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
New Year's comedy "Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!" - A folk picture and one of the best films made by Eldar Ryazanov. This cult ribbon for many years has become an indispensable attribute of New Year's celebrations and a source of festive mood. The main character of the picture on New Year's Eve after a traditional meeting with friends in the bath mistakenly ends up in Leningrad and is sure that he is in his apartment. Nadia, the real mistress of the apartment, returning home, finds him sleeping. From the clarification of relationships to the suddenly rushing love - on New Year's Eve any miracle is possible.
1. Office romance
Tragicomedy "Love affair at work" Ryazanov’s list of films occupies a special place. This painting, without exaggeration, is the property of Soviet cinema. Favorite actors, excellent musical accompaniment, dialogue of heroes, which have come into use and the piercing atmosphere of the autumn metropolis - I want to review this picture again and again.
The plot of the film is known to everyone - an employee of the statistical bureau Novoseltsev is trying to get a promotion from his boss, a real cracker in a Kalugina skirt ...
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