Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Director:

Georgiy Daneliya

Writers:

Georgiy Daneliya, Revaz Gabriadze

Stars:

Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Yakovlev

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stanislav Lyubshin	...	Vladimir Nikolaevich Mashkov - 'Uncle Vova'
Evgeniy Leonov	...	Wef - The Wandering Chatlanian Singer
Yuriy Yakovlev	...	Bee - the wandering Patsak singer
Levan Gabriadze	...	Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze - 'Fiddler'
Olga Mashnaya	...	Decont - a teleportation officer at Alpha
Irina Shmeleva	...	Tsan - The Desert Stage-Cart Driver
Lev Perfilov	...	Kyrr - the Chatlanian-dissident
Anatoliy Serenko	...	The Space Drifter From Uzm (as A.Serenko)
Aleksandra Dorokhina	...	The Huge Woman at Subway Station (as A. Dorokhina)
Olesya Ivanova	...	A Fat Woman Settled Under the Ferris Wheel (as O. Ivanova)
Tatyana Novitskaya	...	The Presentation Crystal Owner (as T. Novitskaya)
Tatyana Perfileva	...	An old woman in a subway cart (as T.Perfilyeva)
Lyudmila Solodenko	...	A Swarthy Woman Settled Under the Ferris Wheel (as L. Solodenko)
Galina Daneliya-Yurkova	...	Lyudmila Mashkova - 'Lucia' (as G. Yurkova)
Igor Bogolyubov	...	Lord PG's personal Patsak (as I.Bogolyubov)

Storyline

Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an "advanced cyberpunk film". It's a lot about people and social structures which on the planet of "Pluke" of course have many parallels to our society. It's a very funny movie, but it's also a melancholic movie with great philosophical sense.

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Plot Keywords:

planet | galaxy | matches | desert | husband wife relationship | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Georgian Russian

Release Date:

1 December 1986 (Soviet Union)

Also Known As:

Кин-Дза-Дза

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mosfilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

135 min (2 parts) 128 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Wef's cap is actually the codpiece from the discarded fighter pilot's suit, and Pepelats was just thrown together from scrap iron from the nearest dump welded together by a local plumber.

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Quotes

Uef: Friend, let me see your system. What kind of system have you got?
The Space Drifter From Uzm: It's a regular system. You just press the button and you go home.

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Connections

Features Kotovsky (1943)

User Reviews

Most unusual movie of all time

English/American culture (for the most part) tends to be rather reclusive, for example, there are virtually no foreign language songs on the radio. Because of this, many classics are missed, simply because people do now know about them.

This movie is the best example of a great classic unknown. If it would be made it Brittan in the sixties, it would have defiantly achieved cult status, and be widely regarded as all-time sci-fi classic. Alas, it is in Russian, and made at the end of the cold war, and therefore virtually unknown outside of the former Soviet Union.

The movie is full of wonderfully black humour (if you are higher up on the social scale, you sleep on a bed without nails, and they cannot beat you in the middle of the night), desert world with rusted metal structures, and wonderfully eccentric telepathic aliens with bizarre social structures.

This movie is truly a must see – a word of warning however, this is so far from a Hollywood movie, it is it's evil twin. Unlike Hollywood it has: A story Strong characters Crap special effects Complete lack of "touchy feely"

To get the best experience: 1. find subtitled version 2. find a Russian to watch it with you