What is Georgiy Daneliya?
[[File:Danelia.jpg|thumb|Daneliya in August 2010]] '''Georgiy Daneliya''' ({{lang-ka|გიორგი დანელია}} ''Giorgi Danelia''; {{lang-ru|Гео́ргий Никола́евич Дане́лия}}; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as '''Giya Daneliya''', was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and [[Russia]]n [[movie director]] and [[screenwriter]]. He was best known for directing the movies ''[[Walking the Streets of Moscow]]'' (1963), ''[[Afonya]]'' (1975), ''[[Mimino]]'' (1977), ''[[Autumn Marathon]]'' (1979) and ''[[Kin-dza-dza!]]'' (1986). He was named a [[People's Artist of the USSR]] in 1989. Daneliya was born in [[Tbilisi]], the [[capital city]] of the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian SSR]]. In February 2019, he was in [[hospital]] with [[pneumonia]]. On 4 April 2019, he died of [[Respiratory failure|respiratory]] and [[heart failure]] in [[Moscow]]. He was 88.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2019/04/04/a_12284449.shtml|title=Умер Георгий Данелия|website=Gazeta.ru|author=Zarubina, Daria|date=4 April 2019|access-date=4 April 2019|language=ru}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0199381}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Daneliya, Georgiy}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:People from Tbilisi]] [[Category:Russian movie directors]] [[Category:Russian screenwriters]] [[Category:Soviet movie directors]] [[Category:Soviet screenwriters]] {{Bio-stub}}