MONUMENT TO "MIMINO" HEROES TO BE ERECTED IN MOSCOW

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.12.2006 14:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A monument to the heroes of legendary "Mimino"
– Valiko Mizandari (Vakhtang Kikabizde), Rubik Khachikyan (Frunzik
Lazarian) and Volokhov (Yevgeny Leonov) will be inaugurated in Moscow
next year. The monument is dated to the 30th anniversary of the film
shot by director Georgy Daneliya. Yesterday the Committee on Culture
at the Moscow State Duma approved the initiative and an appropriate
project will be drawn in the near future.

The monument is likely to be erected in the district of Chistye
Prudy where the film was shot and where Daneliya lives at
present. Territories adjacent to Georgian streets in the center of
Moscow and the former hotel of Russia, where the heroes met, are
considered as an alternative. A contest for the best monument model
will be announced.

In the words of Yevgeny Gerasimov, the chairman of the Committee
on Culture at the Moscow State Duma, "the monument should convey
warmness and good mood like the film itself." Vakhtang Kikabizde
approved the idea.

People’s actress Marina Dyuzheva, who acted as Mizandari’s young
defender in the court, said "the bronze trio will become a hymn to
warm human relations," reports IA Regnum.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress