"Любимое кино" - серия книг из 35 томов, посвященная самым выдающимся фильмам, созданным советским кинематографом. Каждный том серии рассказывает историю возникновения одной картины, о ее создателях, сыгравших главные роли актерах, подробностях сьемочного процесса, а также о том, что осталось за кадром. Неотьемлемая часть каждной книги - DVD с фильмом, которому она посвящена.
Первый том коллекции "Любимое кино" - о фильме "Москва слезам не верит", Ставшем любимым для миллионов жителей СССР и навсегда изменившем представление Запада о советском кино.
"Favorite Cinema" is a series of 35-volume books dedicated to the most outstanding films created by Soviet cinematographers. Each volume of the series tells the story of the origin of one picture, about its creators, the actors who played the main roles, the details of the filming process, and also about what remained behind the scenes. An inalienable part of every book is a DVD with a film to which it is dedicated.
Georgian bush pilot Valiko Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino (Vakhtang Kikabidze) works at small local airline, flying helicopters between small villages. But he starts to dreams of piloting large international airliners, when he meets his former flight academy classmate accompanied by pretty stewardess Larisa, whom he wishes to impress, assured that bush pilot doesnt have a single chance. So he decides to go to Moscow to follow his dream. There in a hotel he meets Armenian truck driver Ruben Khachikyan (Frunzik Mkrtchyan) who is given a place in that hotel by mistake instead of another Khachikyan (Professor), and they have many adventures in Moscow together.
Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the Big World. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world, including San Francisco, USA. Feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telava in Georgia, to his family and friends.
Mimino's real name in the film is Valiko Mizandari—his nickname "Mimino" ( Georgian: მიმინო) is the Georgian word for sparrow hawk, although it is stated on the back cover of the DVD that "Mimino" means falcon.