Georgiy Daneliya — Director (11)

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Tears Were Falling (1982)
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other title: 昔淚流 / Слёзы капали …
We pick up the story on our main character's bus ride home. He sits alone, looking content, trying to pass the time. Then, something seems to get in his eye, because he rubs it and then closes the buses window. Something changes about him. He looks around and feels a strange disgust in the bus filled with quiet strangers also trying to get home and minding their own business. Pavel-Ivanovich is so disgusted that he gets off the bus several stops before his home and walks, arriving at dark. From here his story begins, and we go along for his sad ride. From that evening on he sees only sadness and wrong in everything. He can't respond to kindness, and scolds those closest to him. He offends everyone. At his work he tries to go against as many people as possible, and hurt ordinary citizens too. He also feels that everyone is against him. His condition seems to worsen. How will all this end. Sure this can't be the end for Pavel-Ivanovich, a good man somewhere deep inside. The brilliance of this film lies in the main character's deep state of mind. His suffering. The fact that he hurts everyone around him, feels horrible about it but still does it until he almost loses everything. If you like film's where you feel that you can relate or feel the character's emotions, you might like this film. An incredible pressure is built up throughout the film, and the last scene, for me at least, magically lifts it, if only for a couple of seconds. This is a strange film, and I don't say that a lot. It is very hard to describe, but the main elements that drive the feel of this film are the main character's state of mind and the music (more than half of the film has incredible original music playing in the background). Daneliya's films have incredible music like in Autumn Marathon, Kin-Dza-Dza, and Thirty-Three. Daneliyaa was into jazz and played drums in a band way back before he started making film so his films are very rich in music. Also this film is sad, but is also a comedy. All these elements mix to make an incredible movie

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Pasport (1990)
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格奥尔基·达涅利亚 actor: 热拉尔·达尔蒙 / 娜塔莉亚·贡达列娃 …
other title: 护照 / Паспорт …
Merab, a Georgian taxi driver who mistakenly crosses into Israel while seeing off his Jewish brother, Yasha, gets stuck without documents. He gets entangled in bureaucratic nightmares, mistaken identity, and KGB plots while trying to return home.

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Ku! Kin-dza-dza (2013)
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Georgiy Daneliya / Tatiana Ilyina actor: Ivan Tsekhmistrenko / Andrei Leonov …
other title: 外星奇遇 动画版 / Ку! Кин-дза-дза …
苏联电影《外星奇遇》(1986) 的动画版续集。 When two humans foolishly fiddle with an alien transportation device they are flung to a far off planet from which they have to try and find their way home.

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Thirty Three (1965)
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格奥尔基·达涅利亚 actor: 叶甫根尼·列昂诺夫 / 诺娜·莫尔久科娃 …
other title: 三十三 / Тридцать три
一般人正常情况下最多只有32颗牙齿。但俄罗斯一个小镇牙医,却发现前来求诊的病人长出了第33颗牙齿!特拉夫金本来在工厂工作,因此受到注目,被带到首都莫斯科,一头栽进匪夷所思的荒诞世界。他一跃成为全国知名的公众人物,大家认定拥有额外牙齿的人,必定天赋异禀,连特拉夫金自己也信以为真。科学界的人甚至提出,他很可能是来自火星的后裔!太离奇了吧,还不止呢,他们更提议让他成为地球的代表,送他前往火星执行危险任务。这样的遭遇到底是好梦,还是一场噩梦?一颗牙齿引发的连串荒唐事情,格奥尔基·达涅利亚拍成了有趣又热闹的讽刺喜剧。

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Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
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格奥尔基·达涅利亚 actor: 斯坦尼斯拉夫·柳布申 / 叶甫根尼·列昂诺夫 …
other title: Кин-дза-дза! / 不思議惑星キン・ザ・ザ …
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

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Mimino (1978)
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★ 7.6 5 ratings
格奥尔基·达涅利亚 actor: 瓦赫坦格·基卡比泽 / 伏龙泽克·姆克尔强 …
other title: 米米诺 / Мимино …
Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.

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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
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★ 8.0 17 ratings
other title: 我漫步在莫斯科 / Я шагаю по Москве …
On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married.