Author: Eldar Ryazanov
Alternate names: Эльдар Александрович Рязанов
Born: 18 November 1927
Died: 30 November 2015
Bio: Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (Russian: Эльдар Александрович Рязанов) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries.