The Sad Face of Comedy, or Finally Summed Up – Eldar Ryazanov – CoLibri – 2022 – ISBN 978-5-389-14899-4
The Sad Face of Comedy, or Finally Summed Up
The Sad Face of Comedy, or Finally Summed Up
29.99 €
When this book first hit the bookshelves, the author was 82 years old - an age that requires "taking stock". "The sad face of comedy, or..." - is a kind of confession of a man who gave his life to the cinema, a cult film director, which accounted for more than two dozen feature films, among them the legendary "Beware of the Car", "The Irony of Fate", "Office Romance", "Station for Two", "Carnival Night" and others. By the author's admission, he has been "laboring like a horse" all his life. In addition to films, Eldar Ryazanov created more than two hundred author's TV programs, wrote plays, novels, screenplays and poems, was a teacher and producer ... In his book, the author talks about the "most important", tells about his student years and his teachers - Kozintsev, Eisenstein, Piryev, about his directorial development, the funny and sad stories associated with the birth of his famous films, with love and gratitude recalls friends and relatives, as well as artists, artists, composers, cameramen, editors - his colleagues and associates, all those with whom his fate encountered during his long life.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Persona