# Eldar Ryazanov's best films

From Carnival Night to The Promised Heaven: Ryazanov's films according to Kino Mail and Lifehacker, led by Office Romance and The Irony of Fate.

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- Sep 9, 2025 · Olga Andreeva
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## Top 13

1. **Office Romance (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alisa Freindlich and Andrei Myagkov in a statistics bureau.
2. **The Irony of Fate (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The New Year's classic: Leningrad instead of Moscow.
3. **Beware of the Car (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Innokenty Smoktunovsky as a noble car thief.
4. **Garage (1979)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A garage cooperative meeting.
5. **A Cruel Romance (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Ostrovsky's Without a Dowry, with Larisa Guzeeva.
6. **Station for Two (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lyudmila Gurchenko and Oleg Basilashvili; in competition at Cannes.
7. **Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Soviet-Italian treasure-hunt comedy.
8. **Hussar Ballad (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A girl in the cavalry in the war of 1812.
9. **Carnival Night (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lyudmila Gurchenko and Igor Ilyinsky; his first big hit.
10. **Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (1980)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A provincial town, hussars and a gendarme.
11. **Forgotten Melody for a Flute (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A satire of bureaucracy during perestroika.
12. **Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Students demand the key to the safe from their teacher.
13. **The Promised Heaven (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Homeless people at a city dump.

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