Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Mamuka Kikaleishvili (, ; 10 August 1960 – 3 May 2000 was a Georgian actor and film director.

Biography Born in Tbilisi in 1960, he graduated from Tbilisi Theatre Institute (1981) and worked for Marjanishvili National Academic Drama Theatre until 1984. In 1984, he was employed by the Georgia Film studio. Throughout his career, Mamuka Kikaleishvili performed in leading and secondary roles in a number of films produced in USSR, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. At the 1988 international festival in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, he won a prize for the best comedy actor. In 1992, he made his debut as a director and co-directed Fallen Angel (Georgia) with Levon Uzunian.

Later in his life, he worked for the Georgian Embassy in Moscow where he died in 2000.

On the morning of April 26, 2000, Mamuka's wife called the emergency services to report her husband unconscious. The ambulance found the actor unconscious on his bed, with an empty box of sleeping pills next to him. Doctors at the Sklifosovsky Institute fought for his life for a week, but Mamuka died of a sleeping pill overdose on May 3, 2000, in Moscow, without regaining consciousness, less than three months before his 40th birthday. He is buried in Tbilisi, at the Vaki Cemetery.

Filmography Old Hags — Russia, 2000 Instead of Me — Russia, 2000 The Princess on a Bean — Ukraine, 1997 Cafe in Lemon Russia, 1994 Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach — Russia, 1992 Bravo, Giordano Bruno — Georgia, 1993 Zero Option — Uzbekistan, 1992 Wandering Stars — USSR, 1991 Crooks— USSR, 1990 Passport — USSR/France, 1990 Girl from Rouen Nicknamed Doughnut — USSR, 1989 The Scoundrel — Azerbaijan SSR, 1988 The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho — Georgian SSR/Spain, 1988 Gentlemen Adventurers — Georgian SSR, 1985 An Unusual Trip — Georgian SSR, 1983