I watched it alone in my hotel room in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. My Russian guide, Olga took us to a well-known Georgian restaurant called Mimino ! and she enthused about the movie . I am Australian , love movies , and have enjoyed films from Iran, Argentina, Bosnia , and a few Russian films. I can't say this was a hit with me. It was mildly funny to start with, but then was a challenge to keep with it. I had a few chuckles at bits of nonsense . I missed bits of the story , but realized the Azerbaijani truck driver was key to the plot line. When Mimino was suddenly flying airliners, I thought this was all in his fantasy, but apparently not. After reading rave reviews on IMDb, I gather I missed the subtle (?) humour in accents, mistakes in grammar. It was labeled as a cult classic ! Mimino had this awful habit of flying into a rage at the mildest check . I think his airline boss did this too. Not funny in my books. The music was charming to start, then I became unaware of it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wasn't Russian or Georgian. I gather that extraordinary plane was a Tupolev Tu-144 , looks like the Concorde.

Never boring, obscene, or stupid, but definitely absolutely charming and legendary. Together with "Kin-Dza-Dza" it achieves the highest heights of cinematography. Both these outstanding masterpieces belong to one and the same director. These two friendly movies are something very special and if you soak up their atmosphere you will definitely see their high class. Our modern cinema can hardly rival their greatness. Under the influence of such rare but perfect movies people would have become more attentive to each other and would have had more common sense. Cinematography would have been a healer and a good reliable teacher then.The main character is the Man. Probably he is a good-for-nothing brawler, a bad poet, and a poor conversationalist. And he surely does not have lots of dough. And no lethal weapons under his jacket. But he has a heart and behaves in every single situation like a hero. The woman who rejects and mocks him will understand her mistake sooner or later… Why are we writing and reading reviews on IMDb? Even an answer to this question can be found in "Mimino". Remember that scene when he makes a phone call and gets to Israel instead of his village? What a common man of today would do in exactly the same situation? And what the Man would do? Watch it to see. An eternal cinema classic.Give it a 10, "Zdachi ne nado!" Thanks for attention.

No movie has ever captured so well the feelings of love and sorrow, pride and fairness as this one. And, mind you, not through the stupid didactics or a trivial calculatable formula. No other movie has such a synergy of fundamental humanity ideas, screenplay, directon, actors performance, music and cinematography.This movie is a peak for the most of its participants - never again they've achieved such an excellence!

Thats my favorite movie EVER. I think is HYSTERICAL funny.