Riazanov, El´dar Aleksandrovich (1927)	Nepodvedennye itogi. Izdanie 2-e, dopolnennoe. M., 'Iskusstvo', 1986. 415 p., b/w ill., plates.	€30,00

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8vo, publisher´s binding. Covers, endpapers designed by O.L.Lazovskaia, A. G.Kuz´kin. SECOND EDITION, FIRST RUN. RARE. The best edition of memoirs by a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union. Among his most famous films are Carnival Night (1955), Hussar Ballad (1962), Beware of the Car (1966), The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979), and A Cruel Romance (1984). Ryazanov's main genre is tragicomedy. See: David MacFadyen The Sad Comedy of Eldar Riazanov: An Introduction to Russia's Most Popular Filmmaker (2003). ISBN 0-7735-2636-6