Outstanding Soviet Georgian film director, People’s Artist of the USSR Georgy Nikolaevich Danelia (born August 25, 1930, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) is the director of wonderful films such as “Serёzha,” “I Walk Through Moscow,” “Thirty-Three,” “Don’t Grieve,” “Mimino,” “Afonya,” “The Autumn Marathon,” “Kin-dza-dza,” “Passport,” and others. In 2002, he wrote a memoir book, “A Ticketless Passenger.” These are not memoirs in the usual sense of the word, but rather short stories from the life of a brilliant director—sometimes funny, sometimes sad—very much like his films.