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Filmmaker · Georgia

Georgiy Daneliya

Died in 2019

Georgiy Daneliya, born in Tbilisi in 1930, was taken to Moscow at the age of one and studied at the architecture institute there, graduating in 1955; he worked for a time in an urban planning institute before entering the advanced directing courses, which he completed in 1959. He made most of his work at the Mosfilm studio and in Russian, and was one of the great names of Soviet comedy, in a manner that holds farce and melancholy together. People's Artist of the Union in 1989, he died in Moscow on 4 April 2019.

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