Plot
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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Cast
Vakhtang Kikabidze
Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari [Mimino]
Frunzik Mkrtchyan
Ruben Khachikyan (Rubik-djan)
Evgeni Leonov
Ivan Volokhov
Elena Proklova
Larisa Ivanovna Komarova, stewardess
Marina Dyuzheva
Svetlana Georgievna - Mimino's lawyer
Archil Gomiashvili
Nugzar Papishvili - the father of Varlaam
Leonid Kuravlyov
Professor Khachikyan
Savely Kramarov
Criminal Exiting the Court House
Vladimir Basov
Rodion Vasilievich Sinitsin - the opera singer
Boryslav Brondukov
Mimino's Helicopter Passenger
Larisa Barabanova
The barmaid at the airport
Aleksei Alekseyev
prokuror
Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mimino's boss
Valentina Titova
Rodion's wife
Zeinab Botsvadze
Ekaterina Mizandari
Vasili Chkhaidze
Aristophanes
Kote Daushvili
old man
Nikolay Grabbe
Volokhov's friend
Eduard Izotov
Vladimir Nikolayevich
Ipolite Khvichia
Kukush
Zaza Kolelishvili
shepherd
Abesalom Loria
Vano
Marina Polyak
Katya Ryabtseva
Vladimir Protasenko
Valera
Karlo Sakandelidze
Tsintsadze
Nadezhda Sementsova
secretary
Viktor Shulgin
clerk
Pavel Vinnik
Nugzar's friend
Georgiy Daneliya
pilot
Svetlana Starikova
stewardess
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
lawyer's father
Lyudmila Gavrilova
organizer of the symposium
Aleksei Alekseyev
prosecutor
Sofya Garrel
passenger
Vladimir Nikitin
Igor
Mikaela Drozdovskaya
Papishvili's wife
Larisa Barabanova
lunch lady
Taisiya Lytvynenko
secretary
Mikhail Vaskov
foreign taxi driver
Tatyana Parkina
Timofeeva (uncredited)
Rene Khobua
(credit only)
Tatiana Rasputina
restaurant visitor
