Georgi Daneliya

Georgi Nikolayevich Daneliya
Born 25 August 1930 (1930-08-25) (age 81)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Occupation film director and screenwriter
Years active 1958–present
Spouse 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 Soviet/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!.

In 1976, he was a member of the jury at the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Most of his films featured his then-wife Lyubov Sokolova, whom the Guinness Book of Records cites as the most prolific film actress, 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.

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Filmography

as Director

Walking the Streets of Moscow by Georgi Danelyia (1963, 78 min.). Scripted by 1960s icon Gennady Shpalikov, Walking the Streets of Moscow stars a young Nikita Mikhalkov as Kolya, a construction worker not yet out of his teens. When Volodya, a friend and aspiring writer, comes to Moscow from Siberia, Kolya tries to arrange a meeting for him with a noted author. Meanwhile, Kolya's childhood friend Sasha wants to get married, but he must first get an Army deferral. Add to the mix Alena, a pretty shop girl to whom Kolya takes an obvious shine—although Alena seems to have eyes only for his visitor. Free flowing, and full of wry, wisecracking dialogue––a Shpalikov trademark––Walking the Streets of Moscow brims with a sense of hope and promise. This film has also been compared to the French New Wave films of the same decade.

as Scriptwriter

Honours and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
Cannes Film Festival
Nika Award
Kinotavr
All-Union Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
KF "Golden Duke"
ICF comedy films
International review of films in Acapulco
"Golden laurel wreath" the Foundation David Oliver O. Selznick
"Golden Aries"
State Prize of the Russian Federation
CCF VC
USSR State Prize
State Prize of the RSFSR Vasiliev brothers
Prize "The Wanderer"
Award "Triumph"
KF "Viva Cinema of Russia!"
Golden Eagle Award
MF debut film "The Spirit of Fire"
State Awards

References

  1. ^ "Berlinale 1976: Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1976/04_jury_1976/04_Jury_1976.html. Retrieved 2010-07-14. 

External links

Films directed by Georgi Daneliya