Eldar Ryazanov, a Russian film director and screenwriter who spoof and glamorize the life of each Russians in his common and very much popular comedies style for almost six decades, died on Monday, November 30. Eldar was 88.
According to his family, Eldar death was due to heart failure. In November 2014 Ryazanov was hospitalized in Burdenko Neurosurgery clinic, and was released in January, 2015.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin was mourned for his loss. President Putin, described Eldar as a "real master and creator" whose films have become "true classics of Russian cinema and part of national heritage and history of the country."
Eldar Ryazanov has became an icon of popular culture through tragi-comedies, a 1975 comedy, "The Irony of Fate"- is known to be his most popular film - is a classic of Soviet cinema tells the tale of a man who gets drunk with friends on New Year's Eve and ends up flying to Leningrad (today's St Petersburg).
Mr. Ryazanov became an instant sensation with his first feature film, the musical comedy “Carnival Night.” Released in the Soviet Union in 1956, it was a harbinger of the post-Stalin thaw and the emergence of a new postwar generation.
Ryazanov also wrote scripts and briefly appeared in his films, usually playing unsympathetic strangers whose presence added another ironic dimension to the plot.
His only one film was banned by Soviet censor: the 1961 comedy "A Man From Nowhere" tells about a noble savage from an imaginary undeveloped tribe who visits the Soviet Union.
Ryazanov directed almost 30 films, most of which became box-office hits and generate endless Russian phrases and popular jokes.
Ryazanov was born in 1927 in Samara, a city on the Volga River, into the family of a Soviet economist who was imprisoned during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
Ryazanov is survived by his wife Emma and daughter Olga, and a grandson from his second marriage.
