Movies by Eldar Ryazanov

A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.

All funny adventures of Pashka Gusarov started the moment he fell in love with Katya.

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia.

The writer Moldovantsev is ordered a novel with a sequel. It should be an entertaining work full of adventure - a novel about a shipwrecked Soviet Robinson Crusoe. The novel is on schedule and the editor-in-chief likes it. But he believes that it is necessary to introduce into the plot also the chairman of the local committee, two released members, one activist - a collector of membership fees, a commission for the distribution of housing and, of course, broad layers of workers. It is necessary to create all the conditions for them to work, and therefore the wave must throw ashore a fireproof cabinet for storing membership dues, a table for meetings, and a bell, and a tablecloth. True, the editor does not restrict artistic creativity: the tablecloth can be red, maybe green - Since the editor is adamant, the writer agrees to everything, even to throw Robinson himself out of the novel as an absurd, unjustified figure of a moaner.

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.

Journalist Nikitin writes an article for a popular newspaper about the unsatisfying service at Moscow restaurant "Oduvanchik". With the help of the local students it starts the campaign of converting the place into comfortable modern cafe.

A very good cop tries to catch a very bad and extremely clever car thief. The irony's that the thief isn't very clever, nor is he a bad person. In fact, he's not just a virtuous person he's also the 'cop's best friend.

Winning the lottery turns into a problem when it became clear where the money for ticket was taken from.

An old detective thinks that he is too young for retiring. With the help of his friends, he plans to commit 'the crime of the century' and then quickly solve it. But being a criminal is much more harder than being a policeman.

The mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia.

The life of entire statistical bureau becomes crazy when an ordinary worker, a shy man, falls in love with a boss, a strict woman.

Meeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.

In the 19th century Russia, the life of entire provincial town changes both comedic and dramatically after the arrival of high-ranked secret police officer, investigating an anonymous accusation of state treason.

A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.

A bitter story about tender love and its cruel betrayal set in Russia of the 19th century.

A former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.

Three school boys and one school girl visited their old schoolmarm on her birthday. But their intentions were horrible.

Many of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that strange things are about to happen to him. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.

A blind girl and her friend fight against criminals in the new age of Russian history.

Four elderly women are deceived by crooks. Revenge will be funny.

Anton M. Kashtanov is a talented surgeon and head of a large clinic. He decides to escape his domineering and bitchy wife Pauline in the village of Still Waters. Here he reconnects with his childhood friend.

Love, friendship, jealousy and many other feelings are mixed up in this sweet story set in Russia before World War I.