Kin-dza-dza!
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| Directed by | Georgiy Daneliya |
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Georgiy Daneliya Revaz Gabriadze |
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Stanislav Lyubshin Yevgeni Leonov Yury Yakovlev Levan Gabriadze |
| Music by | Gia Kancheli |
| Cinematography | Pavel Lebeshev |
| Edited by | Natalya Dobrunova |
| Distributed by | Sovexportfilm |
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135 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Kin-dza-dza! (Russian: Кин-дза-дза!, translit. Kin-dzah-dza!) is a 1986 Soviet sci-fi dystopian black comedy cult film released by the Mosfilm studio and directed by Georgiy Daneliya, with a story by Georgiy Daneliya and Revaz Gabriadze. The movie was filmed in color, consists of two parts and runs for 135 minutes in total.
Like many of Daneliya's works, Kin-dza-dza! represents a double entendre in terms of parody and features dark and grotesque aspects of humanity. It depicts a desert planet, depleted of its resources, home to an impoverished dog-eat-dog society with extreme inequality and oppression.
The film is set in 1980s Moscow. Uncle Vova, a generic but gruff foreman and family man, goes outside to buy groceries. Standing right in the city centre on Kalinin Prospekt, a barefoot man dressed in a tattered coat appeals to anyone with a strange request: "Tell me the number of your planet in the tenture? Or least the number of your galaxy in the spiral?". Uncle Vova stops to talk to the man, as well as a young Georgian student with a violin (The Violinist), during which the stranger shows them an alien teleportation device – "traveller". Uncle Vova holds out his hand to the device and, despite the stranger's warnings, presses a random button. Suddenly Uncle Vova and the Violinist find themselves alone on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy.
The natives of the planet appear human, with deceptively primitive-looking technology and a barbaric culture, which satirically resembles that of humans. They are telepathic; the only spoken words normally used in their culture are “ku” (koo) and “kyu” (kyoo), the latter being a swear word. However, the Plukanians are able to quickly adapt to understand and speak Russian and Georgian. The society of Pluke is divided into two categories: Chatlanians and Patsaks. The difference is ascertained only by means of a small handheld device (visator), similar to flash drive in appearance; when pointed at a member of the Chatlanian group, an orange light on the device comes on; when pointed at a member of the Patsak group, a green light comes on. It is also noted that the social differences between Patsaks and Chatlanians are not constant: Pluke being a Chatlanian planet, so Chatlanians are privileged, and a system of rituals must be followed by the Patsaks to show flattery; but there are Patsak planets where Patsaks hold the upper hand and Chatlanians are subservient. The visator shows that Uncle Vova and the Violinist are Patsaks.
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