Eldar Ryazanov died in Moscow at the age of 89. The director left behind about 30 films, each of which became a hit in the Soviet and Russian film distribution. Many of Ryazanov's paintings were quoted, his films, shot more than 40 years ago, are still watched in one breath and it can be said with full confidence that there is no viewer in Russia who would not know the name of this director ...
Ryazanov himself spoke modestly about himself: “ I never felt like a classic - neither cinema nor literature", - said National artist THE USSR.
Musical comedy "Carnival Night", which was released in wide release in 1956, is considered the first feature film by Eldar Ryazanov.
Despite the skepticism of the artistic council, which called the rough material filmed by the director “boring and mediocre”, the picture was an incredible success for those times with the audience: over 48 million tickets were sold for it. The young actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, who performed in “ carnival night” one of the main roles, according to critics, overnight became a star.
Movie "Hussar ballad", one of the main characters of which was the famous lieutenant Rzhevsky (the role of Yuri Yakovlev), was filmed for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, and its premiere took place in Moscow at the Rossiya cinema on September 7, 1962.
Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Alisa Freindlikh also auditioned for the role of Shurochka Azarova, which was brilliantly played by Larisa Golubkina (it was her film debut).
In 1966, the audience was presented lyrical comedy Eldara Ryazanova "Watch out for the car", which he shot based on the story of Emil Braginsky.
According to the director's memoirs, the plot was based on the legend of the "people's Robin Hood", popular in those years, who stole and sold cars of "plunderers of socialist property", and transferred money to orphanages.
As Ryazanov and Braginsky later found out, the story of the noble kidnapper turned out to be completely fictional.
“This guy raised his hand to the most sacred thing we have - the Constitution!” says one of the characters in the film.
In the Italian version of the comedy " Incredible adventure Italians in Russia“, filmed in 1973 by Eldar Ryazanov and Franco Prosperi, was called “One crazy, crazy, crazy race in Russia” - Una matta, matta, matta corsa in Rusia.
They say that the producer Dino di Laurentiis, having initially read the script written by the Ryazanov-Braginsky duet, declared it complete nonsense that the Italian audience would not watch.
At the request of di Laurentiis, Ryazanov rewrote the script, turning it into a chase film with a variety of stunts and scenes with a live lion.
Ryazanov liked to play episodic roles in his films. In Incredible Adventures, he appeared in the film in the form of a doctor on the wing of an airplane that was breaking ice from an icy mafioso.
Movie dialogue:
- Don't you know that I am Russian by origin - Yes?
- Isn't it noticeable?
- Very noticeable! You have a wonderful Ukrainian accent!
“The irony of fate, or light steam” (1975) is still considered one of the most popular Soviet films and is traditionally shown on Russian television under New Year.
The film is based on the play “Enjoy Your Bath! or Once Upon a New Year's Eve ”, which was written in 1969 and by the time the picture was released, it was in various theaters.
The Polish actress Barbara Brylska, who played one of the main roles, was dubbed by Valentina Talyzina, but her name is not in the credits, as well as indications that Alla Pugacheva and Sergey Nikitin performed songs for the heroes of Brylskaya and Myagkov.
Eldar Ryazanov himself played in the film a passenger on an airplane, on whom the sleeping Lukashin constantly falls.
Movie dialogue:
- No, I'm serious. We have to have own opinion especially difficult. What if it's wrong? Doctors' mistakes cost people dearly. - Yes ... Teachers' mistakes are less noticeable, but in the end they cost people no less dearly.
Movie “Love affair at work” , released in 1977, was an adaptation of the play Colleagues, written in 1971 by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky.
Words to famous song“Nature has no bad weather” to the music of Andrei Petrov was written by Ryazanov himself.
During the filming of Office Romance, Andrey Myagkov himself performed the songs (Sergey Nikitin sang for him in The Irony of Fate).
“If there were no statistics, we would not even suspect how well we work,” says main character Film Anatoly Efremovich Novoseltsev.
In film "Garage"(1979), based on real events, Ryazanov did not change himself and again starred in a cameo role. The hero of Ryazanov is the head of the insect department, who overslept the entire meeting of the cooperative, leaning on a stuffed hippopotamus.
"Garage", released in 1979, tells the story of a meeting of a garage cooperative, at which it is necessary to decide which of those present should be deprived of the garage. The action takes place in the USSR in the late 1970s in the fictional Research Institute for the Protection of Animals from environment”.
Movie quotes:
- The crane driver was paid a bonus, which was carried out strictly according to the estimate as the payment of a day watchman. The day watchman was paid on a budget like asphalt laying, and the asphalt work was paid on a budget like landscaping work.
What are you doing, graduate student? You study the silvery crane, and, by the way, it nests abroad ... This crane in the sky is not our bird at all.
– The Silver Crane is a dark bird. She does not read newspapers and therefore has no idea whether she is ours or capitalist.
Lead roles in the film “Station for two” played by Oleg Basilashvili and Lyudmila Gurchenko.
The picture participated in the official competitive program Cannes Film Festival 1983.
"Cruel romance" filmed in 1984 based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky "Dowry". For Larisa Guzeeva, the role of Larisa Ogudalova became a film debut.
“Forgotten melody for flute”, released in 1987, is based on the play "An Immoral Story", which Ryazanov wrote in collaboration with Braginsky. The main roles were played by Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Dogileva and Irina Kupchenko in the lead roles.
Movie dialogue:
– I don’t have any ham, sorry. What else did you deceive me with?
- Oh, there is just caviar! Zucchini!
Ryazanov about himself:
“I believe that a person should always remain himself and do what he sees fit. I have been in and out of fashion many times, but I have never done anything to be fashionable. Sometimes I was fashionable, sometimes I was not fashionable, then I became fashionable again. Every person should express himself if he has something to express“.
“I can say one thing about myself - I have always made films that I myself, as a viewer, would like to see. When I saw such a picture made by another, I always regretted that it was not me who put it on.', Ryazanov said several years ago.
From repression to comedies: long life Ryazanov
The future director was born on November 19, 1927 in Kuibyshev (now Samara). The parents of Ryazanov's mother, nee Sophia Shusterman, lived there. Alexander Ryazanov and his wife worked at the Soviet trade mission in Tehran. There Ryazanov spent the first years of his life.
However, already in the 1930s, the father of the future director received a distribution in Moscow, where he moved with his family. Shortly after moving to Moscow, the director's father and mother separated. Subsequently, the father started new family. In 1938, Alexander Ryazanov was repressed; in total, he served more than 17 years in prison.
Eldar was raised by her mother and then by her stepfather.
The teenage years of the director fell on the Great Patriotic War. By the time he started, he was only 14 years old.
IN various biographies celebrate Ryazanov's love of reading. For example, in order to go to the library, in the third grade he forged a certificate, posing as a fifth grader.
First works
After school, Ryazanov enters VGIK, and he was able to get into the workshop of the then-famous director Grigory Kozintsev, who made The Overcoat, New Babylon, Hamlet and other films.
Ryazanov also studied another famous director- Sergei Eisenstein. He talked a lot with him, went to visit him.
In 1950, Ryazanov graduated from VGIK. His graduation work was the documentary "They study in Moscow" in collaboration with classmate Zoya Fomina. She became the first wife of the director, but this marriage broke up. In this marriage, a daughter, Olga, was born.
Immediately after the institute, Ryazanov got a job at the Central Studio documentaries. There he filmed stories for the newsreels "Pioneer", "Soviet Sport" and "News of the Day".
Only five years later, Ryazanov left to work for Mosfilm. His first major work at Mosfilm was the wide-screen concert film Spring Voices, which he staged together with Sergei Gurov.
The head of the studio, Ivan Pyryev, closely followed Ryazanov's work. He persuaded his subordinate to make the film "Carnival Night", which became Ryazanov's debut in feature films. The film became the highest-grossing film of 1956. He also made famous the young actress Lyudmila Gurchenko. And Ryazanov himself turned into a star, whose work the entire USSR began to follow.
After Carnival Night, many comedies by Ryazanov followed, which also turned out to be successful. In 1958, The Girl Without an Address was released, in 1961, The Man from Nowhere, and a year later, the famous Hussar Ballad. In the filming of the “Hussar Ballad”, Ryazanov was again helped by Pyriev, who persuaded Yuri Yakovlev to star in the film. The director himself had to convince the film authorities that the film was romanticizing Russian history.
At Mosfilm, Ryazanov also met his second wife, Nina Skuybina, who worked there as an editor. He lived with her until her death in 1994.
Literary creativity
Ryazanov's childhood dream of writing career also came true. In the 1960s, he began to actively collaborate with screenwriter Emil Braginsky. It was in collaboration with him that scripts were written for many famous works Ryazanov.
First joint film Ryazanov and Braginsky was the picture "Beware of the car", which was released in 1966. The film is based on the story of the Soviet "Robin Hood", who stole the cars of the plunderers of state property. In the end, the story turned out to be fictional. But Braginsky and Ryazanov were able to prescribe all the plot twists, dialogues and re-drinking of the characters' characters so that the viewer would believe in them.
Ryazanov and Braginsky built on the success of many other films. They co-authored the scripts for such films as “Zigzag of Fortune”, “Office Romance”, “Old Robbers”, “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia”, “Station for Two”, “Garage” and “Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath”. !”.
In 1977, Ryazanov's books " Sad face comedies” and “These frivolous, frivolous movies”. Prior to this, “Zigzag of Fortune” was also published in the form of a book.
mature years
Gradually, a circle of like-minded people began to form around Ryazanov, which included famous actors Soviet era: Yuri Yakovlev, Andrey Mironov, Evgeny Evstigneev, Valentina Talyzina, Leah Akhedzhakova, Andrey Myagkov, Oleg Basilashvili and others.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Ryazanov worked a lot on television. He led the program "Kinopanorama", and also created author's television programs, among which were, for example, "Parisian secrets of Eldar Ryazanov" and "Conversations in the fresh air."
In addition, he taught at the Higher Courses for Directors and Screenwriters.
In 1991, the tragicomedy "Promised Heaven" was released, and then staged according to his own play "Prediction". In 2000, Ryazanov filmed the tragicomedy "Old Nags".
The last films of the director were the fairy tale “Andersen. Life Without Love” and “Carnival Night – 2”.
Ryazanov was also president Russian Academy cinematographic arts "Nika", as well as the founder of the film club Eldar Ryazanov.
Ryazanov made about 30 films and received many prizes and awards.
He was married for the third time to film editor Emma Abaidullina.
When it comes to the legacy of Eldar Ryazanov, I think everyone first of all remembers "Office Romance" - a film that has been watched many times, is reviewed with pleasure and will watch again long years. This film is interesting not only for brilliant cast and subtle good humor, but also the way it shows Moscow in the seventies. While working on the script, Ryazanov and his co-author Emil Braginsky meticulously distributed the houses of the main characters on the map of the capital, taking into account their social status. Judge for yourself. The heroine of Alisa Freindlich, mymra Kalugina, lives in a status candle house on Bolshaya Nikitskaya.
By the time of filming, these houses had just been put into operation. It was prestigious housing in the very center of the capital, a very difficult audience settled here, so the director of the statistical institution, comrade Kalugina, who communicates with the ministers on a short foot, fit in here just perfectly. Or here is Comrade Samokhvalov, played by Oleg Basilashvili, a dandy from the capital who recently returned from a long business trip to Switzerland. Ryazanov and Braginsky settled him in the very center of Moscow, on Gorky Street - in the house where the Minister of Culture of the USSR Ekaterina Furtseva lived (today it is house number 9 on Tverskaya Street).
The protagonist of the klutz Novoseltsev (Andrey Myagkov) does not live in an elite Moscow area by the standards of that time, although almost in the center of the city. His house is located near the modern Dostoevskaya metro station in Chernyshevsky Lane - there he goes to the local store after work, and in the morning takes his boys to regular school. Romantic Olenka Ryzhova, performed by Svetlana Nemolyaeva, lives outside the city according to the script of the picture. The episodes were filmed at the Losinoostrovskaya railway station, which is rather curious, because by the time of the filming of the film Office Romance, this area was quite Moscow already.
In the film, the station near Moscow can be recognized by its specific architecture: a wooden railway station, an old platform with a canopy. Now the appearance of the stations is unified, but then each had its own features. Kalugina's secretary Verochka (Liya Akhedzhakova) lives in Chertanovo. In the 1970s, it was one of the best new residential areas - experimental houses, residential areas were built immediately with social infrastructure. At the beginning of the film, there is such a moment: Verochka looks out to see if the tram is running, to the voiceover of Myagkov, who says that her outfits are foreign, and her salary is secretarial.
At this time, you can see that Verochka is standing on Chertanovskaya Street. Another interesting place- actually the very statistical institution where the heroes work. Filming took place in two houses at once - filmmakers often resort to such techniques. Entrance, hall and buffet - this is the building of the Ministry of the River Fleet Soviet Union at the corner of Petrovka and Kuznetsky Most. The roof where Kalugina waters the flowers and cries into Novoseltsev's vest is the roof of the famous Nirnsee House in Bolshoy Gnezdnikovsky Lane overlooking Tverskaya Street and its surroundings. The heroes' workplaces were arranged right at the Mosfilm film studio.
"The Girl Without an Address"
“The Girl Without an Address” is one of Eldar Ryazanov's early films, and significant changes have taken place since the filming in Moscow, much, unfortunately, has been lost over time. Perhaps the most remarkable thing here is a string of Moscow addresses, which are sorted out by the enamored builder Pasha, played by the talented actor Nikolai Rybnikov, who is looking for the main character Katya (Svetlana Karpinskaya), whom he met on the train to Moscow. Saying goodbye to him, she shouted out the address of her grandfather, whom she had come to visit, but the noise drowned out her voice, and Pasha heard only the beginning: “Nikolo ...”
In the information desk, he is told that there are a lot of streets and lanes whose names begin like this in the capital - it will take years to get around each house. But the young man in love does not give up and begins to methodically bypass all possible addresses. Interestingly, Ryazanov leads his hero not only along Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Lane or Nikoloyamskaya Street, but even to addresses that do not begin with the cherished "Nikolo ...". For example, in the film there is a funny scene in which the hero of Rybnikov ends up in a communal apartment, from where the police take him away. This apartment is located in famous house with lions on Molchanovka Street, built in 1914.
By the way, these famous Moscow lions flash not only in the Ryazanov comedy, but also in other Soviet films- "Twelve Chairs" by Leonid Gaidai and "Officers" by Vladimir Rogovoi. Even in "The Girl with No Address" you can see Novokuznetskaya Street (just in the house number 33 lives the grandfather of the main character), Staraya and New Square. Connected with grandpa interesting point. According to the script of the film, he works in the city committee: to shoot the scene in which Pasha comes to his grandfather, film crew there was no need to look for a place - both the city committee and the street, at the end of which a department store is visible, are scenery created at the Mosfilm film studio.
"Garage"
99 percent of the action of the picture "Garage" takes place in one room. Nevertheless, Moscow still got into the film, albeit a little in a strange way. The Research Institute for Environmental Protection was filmed in two cities, connecting the facade of one building with the interior of another. Remember the moment when the heroine Leah Akhedzhakova runs into the institute? Outside - this is the Vorontsov-Raevsky estate, which is located on Petrovka (house number 14), and inside ... Leningrad Zoo museum RAN. They also show us the scene of the subbotnik - at the very beginning, when the credits roll. Her in the 2nd Mosfilmovsky lane. Garages were actively built there then, and nature turned out to be the most suitable.
"Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!"
Perhaps the most famous Ryazan address of Moscow is located in the southwest. This is Vernadsky Avenue, 125 - the house where Zhenya Lukashin, a lover of New Year's trips to the bathhouse, lived with his mother. You can't miss this house - there is even a memorial plaque on it. It is curious that the Leningrad apartment of the heroine Barbara Brylskaya Nadia was filmed not in Leningrad, but practically right there, on Vernadsky Prospekt, at house number 113. In The Irony of Fate, the southwest is generally excellently shown, which was actively built up and settled down in the 1970s, - Innovators street, church in Troparevo. There is a funny moment that everyone who knows Moscow and St. Petersburg well notices.
Remember how Nadia locks the sleeping Lukashin in her apartment and goes to buy him a ticket to Moscow? On her walk to the station miraculously mixed Leningrad and Moscow landscapes. First, she follows the spit of Vasilevsky Island, then suddenly ends up in Lefortovo, and then returns to Leningrad again. One of the main mysteries of the "Irony of Fate" is the same bathhouse in which the hero of Andrei Myagkov enters an altered state of consciousness at the beginning of the film. They say that these bathing scenes were filmed in Sanduny, but it is not known whether this is actually the case, and we do not undertake to state this with absolute certainty.
"Watch out for the car"
Let's start with the hero of Andrei Mironov - Dima Semitsvetov, who sells scarce receivers from under the counter. He lives on Smolenskaya Embankment, in house number 2a. The footage clearly shows the metro bridge - right next to it is the garage where Dima keeps his car - as well as the Taras Shevchenko embankment. The commission shop where Dima works is a three-story house No. 1 on Sretenka. True, there was no thrift store there - the Tsvety store worked here. In the same place, at the end of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, there is a church near which the Volga was parked, which became a trap for the noble hijacker Yuri Detochkin.
The Church of the Assumption in Pechatniki was not functioning at the time of filming, there was a museum of the navy in the 1960s. If you look closely, in the film, at the entrance to the church-museum, you can see the figure of a sailor with a helm. Certainly, important place- The Garden Ring, where the famous scene of chasing Detochkin in a taxi was filmed: Karetny Ryad, Samotechnaya Square. Well, the unforgettable finale of the film, in which Detochkin utters the sacramental phrase "Hello, Lyuba, I'm back!", Addressing his bride, the heroine of Olga Aroseva, is a recognizable flyover near the Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation, which then just opened.
On the night of November 30, the cult film director and screenwriter Eldar Ryazanov died. He was 88 years old. During his film career, he shot about 30 films, almost all became box office. We have compiled for you a selection of ten Ryazanov films that you should definitely watch if you have not already done so. Or reconsider.
"Love affair at work"
The two-part tragicomedy was created by Eldar Ryazanov at Mosfilm in 1977, and became the leader of the box office in the following 1978. The main characters are the director of the Institute of Statistics, Lyudmila Kalugina, a lonely woman in her thirties, and Anatoly Novoseltsev, her subordinate, a forty-year-old man who is raising two sons. A new employee of the institution (Yuri Samokhvalov, Kalugina's deputy and Novoseltsev's friend from the institute) decides to advance at all costs career ladder comrade, offering him, shy and indecisive, to hit on the boss ... Snow on the trees with green foliage, which is in the film, fell in Moscow on September 18, 1976. Such a scene was not planned, but Ryazanov decided not to miss the whim of nature and for the sake of it extended the film by three and a half minutes.
"Garage"
About this theme: "He made the world laugh and think." Top Ten Movies by Robin Williams The action takes place in the late 70s in a fictitious organization - the Research Institute for the Protection of Animals from the Environment. According to the story, members of the Fauna garage cooperative, organized by the institute's employees, gathered for a meeting to reduce the number of garages - a highway should soon pass through the territory where construction is underway. Participants need to choose four employees who will not receive a garage... The view of the garages under construction at the beginning of the film was filmed on 2nd Mosfilmovsky Lane (houses 18 and 22), and appearance building of the Research Institute "Protection of Animals from the Environment" - at the address: st. Petrovka, 14. The satirical film was released in 1979.
"Station for two"
In a corrective labor colony in Siberia, an evening verification takes place, at which the musician Platon Ryabinin is informed that his wife has come to him, and is also ordered to go to the local workshop for an accordion. He may not go on a date, but refuse to fulfill the order of his superiors - no ... Ryazanov was the first to shoot the final scene, where the main characters run across the field to the colony. According to Lyudmila Gurchenko, who played the main female role, the shooting took place somewhere in Lyubertsy with a 28-degree frost. The role of the colony where Ryabinin is serving his term was played by the Iksha educational colony for minors in the village of Novoe Grishino, Dmitrovsky district, Moscow region. The film entered the official competition program of the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
"Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath"
About this theme: How to celebrate the New Year without TV The most famous Soviet television film, shot by Ryazanov in 1975, we have been watching this tragicomedy on New Year's Eve for many years. The doctor Zhenya Lukashin, the tradition of drinking vodka in the bathhouse on New Year's Eve, the teacher Nadya Sheveleva, typical panels with the same furniture, women who do not take off their winter hats indoors, the poetry of Bella Akhmadulina and the delightful voice of the young Alla Pugacheva - all this is from here. The role of Zhenya Lukashin in the film could be played by Andrei Mironov, but it was impossible to say that he was not successful with women - no one would have believed it. Eldar Ryazanov played one of the episodic roles- a passenger on the plane, on which the sleeping Zhenya Lukashin falls.
"Old Robbers"
This comedy was filmed by Ryazanov at Mosfilm in 1971. The elderly investigator Myachikov, together with his best engineer friend Vorobyov, decided to organize a “crime of the century” in order to prove to the authorities their professional suitability and not be sent into retirement ... Most street scenes The film was filmed in Lvov. An attentive viewer will see architectural ensembles on Rynok Square, the Royal Arsenal, the Lviv City Hall, the Powder Tower, and the Latin Cathedral. The museum staircase was filmed at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Rembrandt's painting "Portrait young man with a lace collar”, which is kidnapped by the heroes of the picture, is stored in the Hermitage.
"Zigzag of Luck"
About this theme: “You can find a job in Moscow either in three days or never.” IN provincial town photo studio "Sovremennik" works. Photographer Volodya Oreshnikov wins a loan of 10,000 rubles and plans to buy a camera that he has long dreamed of. The catch is that he took 20 rubles to buy the bond from the mutual benefit fund, where all colleagues put money. The latter arrange a trial for Volodya: in their opinion, the winnings should be divided among all those who regularly paid dues ... Critics called the film an incomparable satire about greed, “ female envy”, “human insignificance”, “beauty and ugliness”. The comedy was filmed at Mosfilm in 1968.
"Watch out for the car"
The plot was based on a legend about a man who stole cars from bribe-takers, sold them, and transferred money to orphanages. Here is what the director wrote about this film: “We wanted to make a sad comedy about good person, which seems abnormal, but in fact it is more normal than many others. This man is a big, pure-hearted child. His eyes are wide open to the world, his reactions are spontaneous, his words are simple-hearted, the restraining centers do not interfere with his sincere impulses. We gave him the surname Detochkin. The comedy was filmed by Eldar Ryazanov at Mosfilm in 1966.
"The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia"
About this theme: Never photograph Venice A joint Soviet-Italian adventure comedy was filmed in 1973 by Eldar Ryazanov and Franco Prosperi. In the Union, the film was watched by about 50 million viewers in the first year of distribution. The plot is as follows: in a hospital in Rome, at the age of 93, a Russian emigrant died, who before her death managed to tell her granddaughter Olga about 9 billion Italian liras hidden in Leningrad. The secret was heard by orderlies Antonio and Giuseppe, a doctor, another patient, and mafia Rosario Agro. On the plane, on the way to Russia, they all meet, and the buffoonery begins, the working title of which was “Russian Spaghetti”.
"Hussar ballad"
The action takes place in 1812. To the retired major Azarov comes hussar lieutenant Dmitry Rzhevsky. He is engaged in absentia to Azarov's niece named Shurochka and is a priori not happy future meeting with the bride, believing that she is a cutesy girl. However, Shurochka keeps well in the saddle, knows how to joke like a hussar and handle a sword ... They say that the prototype of Shurochka Azarova is a cavalry girl Patriotic War 1812 Nadezhda Durova. Larisa Golubkina debuted in her role in the film. And Ryazanov filmed the comedy itself at Mosfilm in 1962.
"Carnival Night"
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"Carnival Night" became the leader of the Soviet film distribution in 1956. According to the story, the employees of the House of Culture are preparing for a costumed New Year's carnival. Comrade Ogurtsov, acting director of the Palace of Culture, does not approve entertainment program dancing evenings, circus numbers and clowns, replacing it with a lecture by an astronomer and classical music. But the workers of the House of Culture do not agree with the dry and serious program. main role the film is played by young Lyudmila Gurchenko (her second film role). By tragic coincidence circumstances, the performer of one of the main roles of this New Year's movie Yuri Belov died on New Year's Eve on December 31, 1991.
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On November 18, the remarkable Russian film director Eldar Ryazanov would have turned 90 years old. The range of emotional saturation of his films is unusually wide: from the tragic " Cruel romance to the unrestrainedly cheerful Carnival Night. That Ryazanov - real master, you can already guess by how "tenacious" his characters and quotes from his works: here you have jokes about lieutenant Rzhevsky on the verge of a foul (who even remembers where this lieutenant Rzhevsky came from?), And "what a muck this is your jellied fish !" along with the whole trio of lovers Zhenya and Nadia and the unfortunate Ippolit, and the motto “freedom to Yuri Detochkin!” ...
All Ryazanov's films are a kind of "colored pictures from life." They are realistic, but a little bit fabulous. They are edifying, but not at all moralizing. His characters can sometimes look very ridiculous, but through all their absurdity, a reminder of things that are truly serious and important shines through.
Yuri Detochkin
Objectively speaking, Yuri Detochkin is not at all positive hero. For a moment imagine such a person in your life: climbing into privacy people, collects dossiers on them, and then also does justice, instead of handing over criminals to justice. Let us recall Kant: "You must always act in such a way that the maxim of your will serves as the basis for universal legislation." What kind of society will it be if the general legislation begins to steal cars from thieves, even if it transfers money for dishonestly acquired goods to those in need? Chaos. Life by concept.
But there is one feature in Detochkin that covers all his shortcomings. And makes it look like a holy fool. The search for truth defines his whole being. That is what he is running for. Detochkin's tragedy lies in the fact that legal law does not keep up with him in his utopian pursuit of truth.
But for us, this obviously crazy, pardon the common expression, hero is a reminder. A reminder of the importance of sincerity and clarity in "discerning spirits." That in relation to evil there is no room for compromise. Let the method chosen by Detochkin be controversial, but the goal is true.
Cornet Shurochka
The film "The Hussar Ballad" is practically a hymn to women's equality (except for the fact that women are not at all obliged to be afraid of mice, this, as they say now, is a false gender stereotype).
The beginning of the 19th century, that is, the time when it is simply ridiculous to think about gender equality. The girl, trained in fencing and riding, fits perfectly into the atmosphere of the Patriotic War of 1812 and wipes her nose to young and experienced officers. Shurochka not only successfully pretends to be a young man - she performs real feats, she receives a well-deserved award, she continues military service ...
Screenwriter Alexander Gladkov claimed that his Shurochka was not at all written off from the "first female officer" Russian army Hope Durova. Indeed, in Shurochka Furthermore, what we would call "recklessness", and purposefulness is the same. And that's a huge lesson.
Behind her cunning, in fact, there is simplicity. At first, she plays a joke on her self-confident fiancé, but soon her game turns into a life full of dangers. Shurochka makes it very clear that a person should be valued by what he has done.
Nothing prevents a girl with military skills from saving the imperial adjutant. A tree is known by its fruit, not by its form.
Nadia Sheveleva
Actually, "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath" is a frankly harmful film. Let's start with the fact that you can't get so terribly drunk, even on New Year's Eve (especially the day before). In addition, I am very sorry for Galya, Zhenya's bride, and Ippolit, Nadia's fiance. It is not their fault at all that their intended future spouses will meet their fate on a fabulous New Year's Eve and leave them without the slightest regret. They say that in the modern sequel to The Irony of Fate, it turned out that Nadia returned to Ippolit, and Zhenya to Galya, and this is very realistic. But it will be in twenty years, but for now - let's turn to the original.
Described in the film New year's night extremely chaotic, and it is not so easy to understand the character of the characters. But Nadia has one inalienable quality - kindness.
It is out of her kindness that Nadia does not expose the obsessive guest with the police, especially when he begins to behave frankly indecently, throwing out a portrait of her fiancé and so on. It is out of kindness (and not just because he annoys her in her own apartment) that she is ready to lend him money for a ticket to Moscow. She, in the end, sings just good and bright songs!
And in the denouement, her kindness merges with the hope for a miracle. Drunk, but wise Ippolit bluntly and honestly admitted that it is possible to break a relationship overnight, but not to build one. But Nadezhda wanted fairy tales and miracles too much. She takes Zhenya's briefcase with a broom and goes to Moscow. Just return the forgotten broom. And a miracle happens.
Novoseltsev
“What can be instructive in this weak-willed peasant - neither fish nor meat?” - the reader will be surprised. In vain.
Office Romance is one of Ryazanov's best and deepest works. Despite the unrealistic nature of what is happening: ugly ducks do not turn into swan princesses only from one-time male attention, nondescript men do not turn into machos from sympathy from the boss. But the essence is captured brilliantly: we all need love, attention and care. Only they rip off the mask of Mymra from the beautiful noble appearance, presented to Lyudmila Prokofievna great actress Alisa Freindlich. Only they make an inconspicuous employee of a meaningless institution a courageous and open person.
You can guess that Novoseltsev is not as simple as it seems, already by the fact that he is not a widower - he sued the children from his “wife who took off”. And this is "plus one to karma," as they say, living in computer games People. The point is not that Novoseltsev is a vindictive bastard who does not allow the unfortunate stumbled (or maybe not stumbled, but simply loved another - it was not a great sin to officially divorce in the era of stagnation) before raising children. The fact is that the mother during the film does not appear and is not mentioned even once. If only once, in conversations with colleagues, Anatoly threw in his hearts that she was guarding children at a kindergarten or school. Or that he is trying to sue.
There is no this. Novoseltsev - worthy father, who very accurately understands his duty to children abandoned by his mother.
Novoseltsev is a decent person. He categorically does not want to hit on the boss for the sake of promotion on the advice of just dishonorable friend Samokhvalov. His awkward attempts to draw her attention to him are only proof that under the spinelessness lies the inability to lie.
Finally, when the novel is already developing “to its fullest”, Novoseltsev once again shows his decency, this time in relation to his colleague Ryzhova, who was disgraced by Samokhvalov, when he slaps the latter. What, Anatoly did not understand that Samokhvalov would lay him down too? Yeah, he just didn't think about it. He thought about the offended, naive woman in love.
The end of the story is natural. Novoseltsev, even a betrayed "friend" can prove to his "iron lady" the strength of his feelings. Yes, in hysterics, yes with a scandal. But I could. Because at the heart of his character is not softness at all, but the steel core of decency.
Elena Pavlovna Malaeva
"Garage" is not a comedy, but a tragedy of Soviet life. People for the good turn into something terrible. The blessing is garages on which the highway should pass. In our time, people would make a scandal, write to blogs, to Facebook, to Putin - and they would achieve not compensation, but public attention. But on the calendar - a deep stagnation, the end of the seventies. The leadership of the collective simply offers victims. And the team is ready to kill these victims.
And then a small and not very small girl enters the arena of this circus of human relations. beautiful woman, which no one appointed as a victim. Elena Pavlovna Malaeva, a junior researcher, childishly naively declares that it is so dishonest, locks the room where the meeting is taking place, and demands to sort it out. By the way, knowing full well that "figure out" may not be in her favor.
Oh, and she will receive for her love of truth. They will scold, publicly spread gossip about her personal life, not even sparing her child. She should get angry, throw the key and go out: "Decide, as you know, you can throw me out too." But no. Malaeva is capable of resentment, but is not capable of either pride or anger. She, too, like our first hero, is a born truth seeker.
"Garage" ends as sadly as "Beware of the car" - the truth could not be restored. For no reason at all, the sleeping head of the department of insects was excluded from the number of shareholders (it takes place in the mysterious Research Institute for the Protection of Animals from the Environment). But with the help of Elena Pavlovna, they managed to take at least two steps towards the truth - they put out the “thieves”, and not those who could not defend themselves.
Whether Eldar Aleksandrovich was a Christian, I do not know. But he endowed his heroes with simple human virtues. Which are essentially Christian.
film director, screenwriter and writer, People's Artist of the USSR Eldar Ryazanov.As a child, Ryazanov wanted to become a sailor - to travel to distant exotic countries and then describe their adventures in books. He even submitted documents to the Odessa Naval School, but did not wait for an answer (there was a war on). Then the young man entered VGIK, graduated with honors and began working in cinema. And dreams of literature eventually came true: the artist published several books - stories, reflections, memoirs, collections of poems.
But fame and love of the audience Eldar Ryazanov brought his paintings.
"Beware of the Car" (1966)
The comedy was the first collaboration between Eldar Ryazanov and the playwright Emil Braginsky. The script was based folk myth about the “Soviet Robin Hood”, who stole cars from “living on unearned expenses”, sold them, and gave all the proceeds to orphanages. As the director himself said, he and Braginsky really wanted to get to know this hero, tried to find him, applied to the police with requests. But, as it turned out, the real Detochkin simply did not exist.
In 2012, in Samara, Ryazanov's homeland, a monument to Yuri Detochkin, an implacable fighter for justice, was unveiled.
Photo: Frame from the film "Beware of the car"
"Old Robbers" (1971)
This Soviet film masterpiece was also created by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky. In the center of the plot is a couple of middle-aged, but very active old men: investigator Myachikov ( Yury Nikulin), who they want to retire (for 2 months he did not solve a single case), and his friend, engineer Vorobyov ( Evgeny Evstigneev). The adventurers decide to arrange the crime of the century, and then solve it themselves so that Myachikov is left at work.
Photo: Frame from the movie "The Old Men-Robbers"
"Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!" (1975)
First two-part Feature Film showed on January 1, 1976, and over time it developed good tradition to broadcast a comedy on New Year's days.
The play about the “drunken adventures” of Zhenya Lukashin was written by Braginsky and Ryazanov back in 1969 - by the time it was filmed, the play was already running in several theaters. But resounding success it was the film that brought the authors - for it the director, screenwriter, composer Mikael Tariverdiev and the performers of the main roles - Andrey Myagkov And Barbara Brylska- have been awarded State Prize THE USSR.
Photo: Shot from the film "The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!"
Office Romance (1977)
The comedy was filmed in 1977, and in 1978 became the leader of the Soviet film distribution, it was watched by over 58 million viewers.
First, there was a play about the relationship between the 40-year-old shy Novoseltsev and the “mymra” Kalugina, his strict boss - “Co-workers”. The performance of the same name was in theaters with such success that the authors (Ryazanov and Braginsky) decided to make a movie - and this is how Office Romance appeared.
Photo: Frame from the film "Office Romance"
"Cruel Romance" (1984)
The feature film became the second film adaptation in the USSR of Ostrovsky's "Dowry", and the magazine "Soviet Screen" named it in 1984 best film of the year.Critics assessed the work of Ryazanov in different ways. Someone was unhappy acting young Larisa Guzeeva (who made her debut in the film), and Evgeny Danilovich Surkov, who published an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta, was outraged that main character“she sang, danced with the guests, and then went to Paratov’s cabin and gave herself to him.”
The director in his next film (“Forgotten Melody for the Flute”) answered film critics - the name of the negative heroine of Ryazanov, Evgenia Danilovna Surova, is very consonant with the name of the offender.
Photo: Frame from the film "Cruel Romance"
