Eldar Ryazanov
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Office Romance
Eldar Ryazanov
Alisa Freyndlikh, Andrey Myagkov
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Office Romance
Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
Eldar Ryazanov
Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
The Garage
Eldar Ryazanov
Liya Akhedzhakova, Iya Savvina
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
The Garage
Beware of the Car!
Eldar Ryazanov
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Efremov
An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
Beware of the Car!
A Cruel Romance
Eldar Ryazanov
Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open house”, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love.
A Cruel Romance
Вокзал для двоих
Eldar Ryazanov
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...
Station for Two
О бедном гусаре замолвите слово
Eldar Ryazanov
Stanislav Sadalskiy, Oleg Basilashvili
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Franco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov
Andrey Mironov, Antonia Santilli
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 Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Eldar Ryazanov
Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Dogileva
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna
Eldar Ryazanov
Marina Neyolova, Natalya Shchukina
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before the marks. Yelena Sergeyevna strongly objects...
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna
Старики-разбойники
Eldar Ryazanov
Yuriy Nikulin, Evgeniy Evstigneev
An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.
Old Men: Robbers
Ballad of a Hussar
Eldar Ryazanov
Larisa Golubkina, Yuriy Yakovlev
A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
Ballad of a Hussar
Карнавальная Ночь
Eldar Ryazanov
Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko
It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.
Carnival Night
Совершенно серьёзно. Как создавался Робинзон. Фильм 1
Eduard Abalov, Eldar Ryazanov
Anatoli Papanov, Sergei Filippov
Писателю Молдованцеву заказывают роман с продолжением. Это должно быть занимательное произведение, полное приключений - роман о советском Робинзоне Крузо, потерпевшем кораблекрушение. Роман поспевает к сроку и нравится главному редактору. Но он считает, что в сюжет нужно ввести ещё председателя месткома, двух освобождённых членов, одну активистку - сборщицу членских взносов, комиссию по распределению жилплощади и, конечно, широкие слои трудящихся. Нужно создать им все условия для работы, и поэтому волна должна выбросить на берег и несгораемый шкаф для хранения членских взносов, м стол для заседаний, и колокольчик, и скатерть. Правда, редактор не стесняет художественного творчества: скатерть может быть красной, может быть и зелёной... Поскольку редактор непреклонен, писатель соглашается на всё, даже на то, чтобы выбросить из романа самого Робинзона, как нелепую, ничем не оправданную фигуру нытика.
Совершенно серьёзно. Как создавался Робинзон. Фильм 1
Promised Heaven
Eldar Ryazanov
Valentin Gaft, Oleg Basilashvili
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
Promised Heaven
Zigzag of Success
Eldar Ryazanov
Evgeni Leonov, Irina Skobtseva
Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...
Zigzag of Success
