Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.
as Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari [Mimino]
as Ruben Khachikyan (Rubik-djan)
as Ivan Volokhov
as Larisa Ivanovna Komarova, stewardess
as Svetlana Georgievna - Mimino's lawyer
as Nugzar Papishvili - the father of Varlaam
as Professor Khachikyan
as Criminal Exiting the Court House
as Rodion Vasilievich Sinitsin - the opera singer
as Mimino's Helicopter Passenger
as The barmaid at the airport
as prokuror
as Mimino's boss
as Rodion's wife
as Ekaterina Mizandari
as Aristophanes
as old man
as Volokhov's friend
as Vladimir Nikolayevich
as Kukush
as shepherd
as Vano
as Katya Ryabtseva
as Valera
as Tsintsadze
as secretary
as clerk
as Nugzar's friend
as pilot
as stewardess
as lawyer's father
as organizer of the symposium
as prosecutor
as passenger
as Igor
as Papishvili's wife
as lunch lady
as secretary
as foreign taxi driver
as Timofeeva (uncredited)
as (credit only)
as restaurant visitor