Kin-Dza-Dza!
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£31.00
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 student carrying a violin case (Leo
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 U.S. release by Deaf Crocodile and
Seagull Films. In Russian with English subtitles.
| Format | |
| Format | Blu-Ray |
| Film | |
| Year | 1986 |
| Rating | 15 |
| Director | Georgiy Daneliya |
| Starring | Stanislav Lyubshin Leo Gabriadze Evgeniy Leonov Yuriy Yakovlev |
| Country | Russia |
| Label | Deaf Crocodile |
| Region / TV Standard | Code A |
| Language | Russian |
| Subtitles | English |
| Running time | 132 mins |
| Aspect ratio | 1.37:1 |
| Case type | Standard with slipcover |
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