Original title: Kin-dza-dza!
Year: 1986
Country: Soviet Union
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 850066568026
Image: 1.37:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: Russian - 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Unrated
Genre: Science Fiction
Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze
Director: Georgiy Daneliya
Synopsis:
Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa SOLARIS directing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and you'll come close to the existential weirdness of the wonderfully loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy KIN - DZA - DZA !Two average Muscovites – a plainspoken construction foreman (Stanislav Lyubshin) and a Georgian violin student (Levan Gabriadze) – encounter an odd homeless man on the street who asks, “Tell me the number of your planet in the Tentura?”In a flash, they're teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke in the Kin - Dza - Dza galaxy – a Tatooine-like desert world whose inhabitants are hilariously noncommunicative (their main words are “ku” for good and “kyu” for very bad) and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable. A deadpan, absurdist mixture of Kurt Vonnegut, Monty Python, Samuel Beckett and Jodorowsky's never-made Dune where alien cultures are even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, the film is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you're living under – or what planet you're living on. Recently restored by Mosfilm for its first-ever US release by Deaf Crocodile.
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