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

Originally Fiddler was supposed to give the music professor presents from his trip in Abkhazia along with the violin that he forgot because he got drunk. One of the presents was Chacha, Georgian brandy. Right when the film was going to be released Mikhail Gorbachev started his anti-alcohol campaign and they had to change Chacha to vinegar.

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Quotes

Dyadya Vova: Let's go, Skripach, to outer space.

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Connections

Features Kotovsky (1943)

User Reviews

Mama-mama, chto ya budu delat'...Koo, or should I say Kyu..

There isn't much I have to say about "Kin Dza Dza" that hasn't been said by the previous reviewers. But I like this movie so much that I could not resist throwing in my two cents. Yea, it's primitively, or, as someone has pointed out, minimalistically done, so don't expect any special effects. But you know what, who needs them when the movie is that good. The galaxy "Kin Dza Dza" is the slums of the universe, and it shows us our alternate, post-apocalyptic future with a great sense of humor, pantomime and sarcasm. Great cast too. Lyubshin, Leonov and Yakovlev do a fine job here. Since the film's director is Georgian, some Georgian gags were thrown in as well. Oh, and did anyone notice Dyadya Vova's and Gedevan Aleksandrovich's renditions of Frank Sinatra's songs? "Blade Runner," "Brazil," "The Road Warrior," and, to a lesser extent, Luc Besson's "The Final Combat" are all considered to be the classics of the post-apocalyptic, anti-utopian movie worlds. Well, you can add "Kin Dza Dza" to this list.