Georgi DANELIYA
Георгий ДАНЕЛИЯ
Gueorgui DANELIA
USSR, 1977, 97mn 
Colour, fiction
Mimino
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Мимино

 

 Mimino

 Mimino

 
Directed by : Georgi DANELIYA (Георгий ДАНЕЛИЯ)
Writing credits : Georgi DANELIYA (Георгий ДАНЕЛИЯ), Rezo GABRIADZE (Резо ГАБРИАДЗЕ), Viktoria TOKAREVA (Виктория ТОКАРЕВА)
 
Cast
Vakhtang KIKABIDZE (Вахтанг КИКАБИДЗЕ) ...Mimino
Frunzik MKRTCHIAN (Фрунзик МКРТЧЯН) ...Rubik-Ja
Yelena PROKLOVA (Елена ПРОКЛОВА) ...Larisa Komarova
Yevgeni LEONOV (Евгений ЛЕОНОВ) ...Ivan
Vladimir BASOV (Владимир БАСОВ)
Borislav BRONDUKOV (Борислав БРОНДУКОВ)
Georgi DANELIYA (Георгий ДАНЕЛИЯ)
Konstantin DAUSHVILI (Константин ДАУШВИЛИ)
Savely KRAMAROV (Савелий КРАМАРОВ)
Leonid KURAVLYOV (Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ)
Valentina TITOVA (Валентина ТИТОВА)
Pavel VINNIK (Павел ВИННИК)
 
Cinematography : Anatoli PETRITSKY (Анатолий ПЕТРИЦКИЙ)
Production design : Boris NEMECHEK (Борис НЕМЕЧЕК)
Music : Giya KANCHELY (Гия КАНЧЕЛИ)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 24,3 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 27/03/1978
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Awards :
First prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1977
Prix de l’Union Soviétique, 1978
Prix d’Avellino, 1979

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico

Plot synopsis
Valiko Mizandary alias Mimino that means «Falcon» is a pilot in Georgia - his helicopter services mountain villages. Once he went to Moscow to become a pilot of an international class. A lot of adventures – funny, grief and sometimes dramatic – will have occurred to Valiko, before his dream will came true. But in time Mimino will understand that he can’t live far away from his cherished people.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Рецензии / Мимино [Critiques du film Mimino, 1977, de Gueorgui DANELIA], Kinopoisk, 2023
Georgia in my mind [Critique, en français, du film Mimino, 1977, de Gueorgui DANELIA], Pedro KANTOR, senscritique.com, 2023
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- International Film Festival Listapad, Minsk (Belarus), 2023
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2019
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2016
- Saison du cinéma russe 2015-2016, Lyon (France), 2015
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2006
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1977

Photos and videos
 



Monument à la mémoire du film à Tbilissi