Direction: Eldar Ryazanov

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


7.0

46 votes

6.9

22 votes

Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Andrey Myagkov · Barbara Brylska · Yuri Yakovlev · Georgi Burkov

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1975). 2 Episodes. A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one...

6.7

201 votes

6.7

201 votes

Beware of the Car

1966 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Oleg Efremov · Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya · Olga Aroseva

Synopsis The hero of the film is an insurance agent who is also a car thief. He steals cars only from various crooks and never from the good people. Then he sells those stolen cars and gives all the money to...

6.4

59 votes

6.4

59 votes

Direction Franco Prosperi · Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Andrey Mironov · Ninetto Davoli · Antonia Santilli · Alighiero Noschese

Synopsis In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes

The Promised Heaven

1991 · Movie · 125 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Liya Akhedzhakova · Olga Volkova · Valentin Gaft · Leonid Bronevoy

Synopsis Many of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Leonid Filatov · Tatyana Dogileva · Irina Kupchenko · Valentin Gaft

Synopsis The former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with a mistress and comfortable life with a wife.

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The Garage

1980 · Movie · 101 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Liya Akhedzhakova · Iya Savvina · Svetlana Nemolyaeva · Valentin Gaft

Synopsis The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal Soviet style, the four least-well connected...

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The Hussar Ballad

1963 · Movie · 96 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Larisa Golubkina · Yuriy Yakovlev · Igor Ilyinsky · Nikolay Kryuchkov

Synopsis The story takes place in 1812, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Shura Azarova, a young girl from a noble family, dresses herself as a Hussar officer and joins the Russian Army to fight against the invaders.

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