Georgiy Daneliya

Georgiy Daneliya ( "Giorgi Danelia"; ; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as Giya Daneliya, was a Soviet and Russian 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 SSR. In February 2019, he was in hospital with pneumonia. On 4 April 2019, he died of respiratory and heart failure in Moscow. He was 88.