Mimino (1977)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Georgi Daneliya

Writers:

Georgi Daneliya (writer)
Revaz Gabriadze (writer)

Release Date:

2 November 1978 (Hungary)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams...

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Vakhtang Kikabidze	...	Valentin Mizandari (Mimino) (as Buba Kikabidze)
Frunzik Mkrtchyan	...	Rubik Khachikyan
Yelena Proklova	...	Larisa Ivanovna
Evgeni Leonov	...	Ivan Volokhov (Vano)
Ruslan Miqaberidze	...	Mimino's grandfather
Zakro Sakhvadze	...	Mimino's sister
Marina Dyuzheva	...	Mimino's lawyer
Archil Gomiashvili	...	Nugzar Papishvili
Rusiko Morchiladze	...	Lali
Valentina Titova	...	Opera singer's wife
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Aleksandr Alekseyev
Vladimir Basov	...	Bolshoi Theatre opera singer
Zeinab Botsvadze
Borislav Brondukov
Vasili Chkhaidze
Kote Daushvili		(as Konstantin Daushvili)
Mikaela Drozdovskaya
S. Garell
L. Gaziyeva
Nikolai Grabbe
Anatoli Ivanov
Eduard Izotov
R. Khobua
Ipolite Khvichia	...	Kukush, cap shop clerk (as I. Khvichiya)
Zaza Kolelishvili
Saveli Kramarov	...	Criminal outside
Leonid Kuravlyov	...	Endocrinologist Khachikyan
Abesalom Loria
Valeri Nikitin
Marina Polyak
Vladimir Protasenko		(as V. Protasenko)
M. Prozdovskaya
T. Rasputina
Karlo Sakandelidze
Nadezhda Semyontsova		(as N. Semyontsova)
Viktor Shulgin
Mikhail Vaskov		(as M. Vaskov)
Pavel Vinnik

Also Known As:

Мимино (Soviet Union: Russian title)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Georgian | Russian

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:S | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Mosfilm

Quotes:

Mimino's lawyer: Please tell us, did the defendant have a personal hatred toward the plaintiff?
Rubik Khachikyan: Yes he did. He told me, "I feel so much hatred toward the plaintiff, that I can't even eat"
Prosecutor: But the defendant claims he never knew Papishvili before!
Rubik Khachikyan: [Looks at Valiko who shakes his head negatively] Why would he know him from before? When we first walked in, Valiko told me, "Listen" he said, "Who is this defendant, where did he go, I" he told me, "see him for the first time ever"

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Starye pesni o glavnom 3 (1998) (TV)

One of my favorite movies

i think that this movie is all about humanity and deep friendship - even the in harsh reality of former soviet union.

and let me finish this comment by telling all of U: "Love is only what you need" I just have been notified that there no enough lines in my comments - so it goes like this:

this film is among the very best that ever left soviet movie forge. and the movie director is no slouch.

and the fact that i am a Georgian national like he is adds to my pride of being the Georgian.

and i love u all