Eldar Ryazanov (1927-2015) — People's Artist of the USSR, film director, screenwriter, actor, poet and playwright. The films he shot, one after another, became successful and beloved by viewers: 'Carnival Night', 'Beware of the car', 'Zigzag Luck', 'Old robbers', 'Irony of fate, or With a light steam!','Office novel', 'Garage', 'Train station for two' ... In this book, Eldar Alexandrovich very sincerely and at the same time with a share of irony and humor tells about how his life turned out, why a boy who dreamed of becoming a writer and a mechanic, who knew nothing about the profession of a director, suddenly entered the VGIK, what helped him then guess which films needed to be made so that the audience would love them, why famous artists –With. Nemolyaeva, V. Gaft, L. Akhedzhakova, A. Freundlich, A. Myagkov and many others – with great pleasure played in his paintings and were friends with him, and how he still became a writer.The book 'The Sad Face of Comedy, or Finally summed up' reveals to you the secrets of the soul and creativity of a great master.