Cinema
Kin-dza-dza!
Кин-дза-дза!
Georgiy Daneliya · 1986
Synopsis
In Moscow, a building foreman, Vladimir Mashkov, known as Uncle Vova, meets a barefoot stranger in the street who asks him for the coordinates of his planet and shows him a small teleportation device. A Georgian student, a violinist, has come over. Vova presses the button: the two men find themselves on Pluke, a desert planet in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy, whose society is divided into castes and where the colour of one's trousers fixes everyone's rank.
Context
The director wrote the screenplay with Revaz Gabriadze; the cinematography is by Pavel Lebeshev, the music by Giya Kancheli. Stanislav Lyubshin plays Uncle Vova and Levan Gabriadze the student, opposite Yevgeny Leonov and Yuri Yakovlev as extraterrestrials. Produced by Mosfilm, the film was released on 1 December 1986. The Cinémathèque suisse sees in it a satire of capitalism as well as of communism.
Who it is for
A burlesque science-fiction film of over two hours, for those who like the absurd and social satire.
Prizes and reception
The author himself made from it in 2013 an animated version intended for children.