Georgiy Daneliya

Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an "advanced cyberpunk film". It's a lot about people and social structures which on "Plyuk" of course have many parallels to our society. It's a very funny movie, but it's also a melancholic movie with great philosophical sense. (imdb)

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin is cheating on his wife. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are unconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life. Alla and Nina, Andrei's wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don't believe him even when he is telling the truth... (imdb)

Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international aircraft, 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. (imdb)

Young doctor Benjamin returns to Georgia after finishing his studies at the university of Petersburg. His sister decides he needs to get married.

Afonya is a plumber spending the better half of his working hours in the pub. But this behavior isn't looked at lightly in Soviet Russia.

Volodya is an aspiring writer from Siberia. His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost ("Youth"), and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Moscow to discuss his work. In the Moscow Metro Volodya unexpectedly makes a friend, Kolya (Nikita Mikhalkov), who is returning home after a hard night shift. Volodya wants to stay at his old friends' home, but he doesn't know where the necessary street is so Kolya decided to help him to find it. (Wikipedia)

This Soviet Russian film is loosely based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Georgian director Georgi Daniela aptly brings the sometimes obscure, even surreal, Georgian sense of humor to the screen using two of his favorite actors, Vakhtang Kikabidze (as the "Duke") and Yevgeni Leonov (as the "King"). (allmovie.com)

Aspiring young DJ Tolik and world-renowned cellist Vladimir Chizhov meet a barefoot man on a busy Moscow street. They press a button on a peculiar apparatus and teleport to the desert planet Pluke... The animated remake of the cult feature film Kin-dza-dza tells the story of the adventures of Tolik and Uncle Vova in way that is every bit as quirky and exciting. In the dune world of Pluke, people fall into two categories - Patsaks and Chatlanians. (imdb)

"The soul of a child was revealed to me, the revelation engendered reflection, my reflections became clothed in images- and there appeared Seryozha." --Vera Panova

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel. (imdb)

A rough factory worker of a distant rural town of Russia becomes a national celebrity, when it's discovered that his mouth bears 33 teeth. He is brought to Moscow, where he discovers a new world for him.