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Kin-dza-dza!
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Kin-dza-dza! (, ) is a 1986 Soviet film released by the Mosfilm studio and directed by Georgiy Daneliya, with a story by Georgiy Daneliya and Revaz Gabriadze. It is a dystopian science-fiction comedy, in which two men from the Soviet Union accidentally travel through space, meeting two aliens from the Kin-dza-dza star system and their post-apocalyptic world.
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Kin-dza-dza! is a 1986 Soviet science fiction comedy drama and adventure film directed by Georgiy Daneliya, who co-wrote the screenplay with Revaz Gabriadze. The film features Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze, Yevgeny Leonov, and Yury Yakovlev in its cast. Produced by Mosfilm, the movie was originally released in Russian and Georgian.
The runtime is 135 minutes. It holds a rating of 7.8 on IMDb and an average vote of 7.696 on TMDb. The film is distributed via video on demand through providers such as Philo, Night Flight Plus, OVID, Fandor Amazon Channel, and Eternal Family. It has been assessed for the Bechdel test.
Keywords associated with the work include spacecraft, the Soviet Union, post-apocalyptic future, universe, and totalitarianism. A derivative work titled Ku! Kin-dza-dza followed the original release. The title is named after Coriandrum sativum. The film uses an Academy ratio aspect ratio.
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7.7Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
Cast
- Stanislav Lyubshin as Vladimir Nikolaevich Mashkov - 'Uncle Vova'
- Evgeni Leonov as Wef - The Wandering Chatlanian Singer
- Yuriy Yakovlev as Bee - The Wandering Patsak Singer
- Levan Gabriadze as Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze - 'Fiddler'
- Lev Perfilov as Kyrr - The Chatlanian-Dissident
- Irina Shmeleva as Tsan - The Desert Stage-Cart Driver
Themes
- spacecraft
- soviet union
- post-apocalyptic future
- universe
- totalitarianism
- cosmos
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Kin-dza-dza!
- Film.image
- Kin-dza-dza-VHS.jpg
- Film.caption
- VHS cover
- Film.director
- Georgiy Daneliya
- Film.music
- Gia Kancheli
- Film.cinematography
- Pavel Lebeshev
- Film.editing
- Natalya Dobrunova
- Film.distributor
- Sovexportfilm
- Film.country
- Soviet Union
- Film.runtime
- 135 minutes
- Name module.language
- ru
- Name module.title
- Кин-дза-дза!
- Name module.nolink
- yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- Coriandrum sativum
- Genre
- tragicomedy
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Georgian
- Followed by
- Ku! Kin-dza-dza
- Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
- Screenwriter
- Georgiy Daneliya
- Composer
- Giya Kancheli
- Production company
- Mosfilm
- Cinematographer
- Pavel Lebeshev
- Duration
- 127
- FilmAffinity ID
- 144400
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Pepelac2010.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1986-12-01
- title
- Кин-дза-дза!
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- derivative work
- Ku! Kin-dza-dza
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast (in order of appearance)
- Plukanian language
- Releases
- Critical response
- Animated remake
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Kin-dza-dza! (, ) is a 1986 Soviet film released by the Mosfilm studio and directed by Georgiy Daneliya, with a story by Georgiy Daneliya and Revaz Gabriadze. It is a dystopian science-fiction comedy, in which two men from the Soviet Union accidentally travel through space, meeting two aliens from the Kin-dza-dza star system and their post-apocalyptic world.
==Plot== The story begins in 1980s Moscow. Vladimir Mashkov (not to be confused with the Russian actor with the same name), aka Uncle Vova, a construction foreman, returns home to his apartment after a stressful day at work. His wife asks him to buy some groceries, so Vova goes out to the nearest store. Standing right in the city centre on Kalinin Prospekt (now New Arbat Avenue), is a barefoot man, dressed in a tattered coat, who appeals to passersby with a strange request: "Tell me the number of your planet in the Tentura? Or at least the number of your galaxy in the spiral?".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kin-dza-dza!” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.