Mimino (Russian: Мимино, Georgian: მიმინო, Armenian: Միմինո) is a 1977 comedy-drama film by Soviet director Georgiy Daneliya produced by Mosfilm and Gruziya-film, starring Vakhtang Kikabidze and Frunzik Mkrtchyan.

After being punished for unauthorized transport of a cow for an old woman in the village, he asks for recertification and a transfer, hoping to fly large airliners around the world.

Mimino goes to Moscow, leaving his life and family behind, and gets a hotel room with boisterous Armenian truck driver Ruben "Rubik" Hachikyan who was mistaken for an endocrinologist with the same surname.

He tries to ask Larisa out, but both attempts fail as he struggles to adjust to life in the metropolis and his ambitions conflict with Rubik's yearning for home.

Another mistake leads to a chance phone call to a Georgian immigrant in Tel Aviv which reinforces his homesickness.

Notably, director Georgiy Daneliya managed to save the "Telavi/Tel Aviv" phone call scene despite the state's limitations of emigration to Israel by Soviet Jews.

Petritskiy discusses the locations of the various shots in the film, to include various villages in Georgia, the Tbilisi airport, Moscow, and West Germany.

More strange to the cinematographer, was Daneliya's wish to shoot scenes in the mountainous region Tusheti, because it was a very remote area that could only be reached by helicopter, rather than roads.

Petritskiy notes that the Soviets were in power during 1977, so it was arranged that the group would stay in East Berlin—again "for economic reasons", and every day had to cross the border to the American zone to film at the Tegel Airport.