The sad face of the comedy, or finally summed up. Ryazanov E.

When this book first fell on the book regiments, the author turned 82 years old - an age requiring “summing up the results”. “The sad face of the comedy, or...” is a kind of confession of a person who gave his life to a cinema, a cult film director, on the account of which is more than two dozens of play films, among them the legendary “beware of the car”, “irony of fate”, “official novel ”,“ Station for two ”,“ Carnival Night ”, etc. According to the author, he“ worked like a horse ”all his life. In addition to films, Eldar Ryazanov created more than two hundred copyright shows, wrote plays, novels, scripts and poems, was a teacher and producer...

in his book, the author talks about the “most important”, tells about the student years and his teachers - Kozintsev, Eisenstein, Pyryev, about his directorial formation, about fun and sad stories related to the birth of his famous film, with love and gratitude recalls friends and relatives, as well as artists, artists, composers, operators, installers - their colleagues and associates , all those with whom his fate has faced for a long life.