Georgiy Daneliya
Georgi Nikolayevich Daneliya | |
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| File:GeorgiDanelia1.jpg Georgi Daneliya | |
| Occupation(s) | film director and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1958-present |
| Spouse(s) | Irina Ginsburg Lyubov Sokolova Galina Yurkova |
Georgi Daneliya (Georgian: გიორგი დანელია Giorgi Danelia, Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Дане́лия, Geo. Giorgi Nikolozis dze Danelia; born Tbilisi, 25 August 1930) is a Georgian/Russian film director, who became known throughout the Soviet Union for his "sad comedies" (as he styles them).
Daneliya graduated from the Moscow Architecture Institute and worked as an architect. In 1956, he entered the Higher Director’s Courses at the Mosfilm Studio where his teachers were Mikhail Romm, Sergei Yutkevich, Leonid Trauberg, Yuli Raizman, and Mikhail Kalatozov.
His 1964 feature I Step Through Moscow, starring Nikita Mikhalkov, is one of the most characteristic films of the Khrushchev Thaw. Among Daneliya's most popular movies are Mimino (1977), about a Georgian pilot's adventures in Moscow, and The Autumn Marathon (1979), about a translator vacillating between his wife and mistress. In 1986 he directed a sci-fi film, Kin-dza-dza!.
Most of his films featured his then-wife Lyubov Sokolova, whom the Guinness Book of Records cites as the most prolific film actress,[citation needed] and his friend Yevgeny Leonov. Daneliya was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
More recently, he married film director Galina Yurkova, has been involved in animation projects and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts.
Georgi Daneliya is the author or co-author of scripts to most of his films; he also wrote scripts for films by other directors, among which are Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены Удачи) (1972) (collaboration with Viktoriya Tokareva), Frenchman (Француз) (1988) with Sergei Bodrov and Hello from Charlie the Trumpet player (Привет от Чарли Трубача) (1998) with Sergei Dernov.
Filmography
as Director
- Vasisuali Lohankin (Васисуалий Лоханкин) (1958); short
- Also People (Тоже люди) (1959); short
- Splendid Days (Серёжа) (1960); co-directed with Igor Talankin
- The Road to Berth (Путь к причалу) (1962)
- I Step Through Moscow (Я шагаю по Москве) (1963)
- 33 (1965)
- Don't Grieve (Не горюй!) (1969)
- Hopelessly Lost (Совсем пропащий) (1972)
- Afonya (Афоня) (1975)
- Mimino (Мимино) (1977)
- Autumn Marathon (Осенний марафон) (1979)
- Tears Were Falling (Слёзы капали) (1982)
- Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-Дза-Дза) (1986)
- The Passport (Паспорт) (1990)
- Nastya (Настя) (1993)
- Heads and Tails (Орёл и Решка) (1995)
- Fortune (Фортуна) (2000)
as Scriptwriter
- 1972 - Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены удачи); with Viktoriya Tokareva
- 1988 - Frenchman (Француз); with Sergei Bodrov
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