Kin-dza-dza!.
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, KIN-DZA-DZA! 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.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (133 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Deaf Crocodile Films, 1986.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Levan Gabriadze, Stanislav Lyubshin |
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Deaf Crocodile Films in 1986. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Foreign films. Motion pictures. Comedy films. Science fiction. Cult films. Satire. Motion pictures--Russia (Federation). Outer space. Science fiction films. |
Genre: | Feature films. |
Electronic resources
https://innisfilidealab.kanopy.com/node/14715373
- A Kanopy streaming video