Kin-dza-dza!

1986
PG-13
2h 15m

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Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
Writers
- Revaz Gabriadze
- Georgiy Daneliya
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

14K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
Writers
- Revaz Gabriadze
- Georgiy Daneliya
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total

Trivia
Half the dialogue was ad-libbed.

Quotes
Uef: If I have a little KETSE, I have the right to wear yellow pants, and any Patsak should squat twice before me, not once. If a have a lot of KETSE, I have the right to wear crimson pants, so any Patsak should squat twice, any Chatlanin should make "ku", and Etsilopp can't beat me at night...

Connections
Featured in Ravnyaetsya odnomu Gaftu (2010)

Soundtracks
Strangers in the Night
(uncredited)
Written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder
Performed by Levan Gabriadze

User reviews62

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Featured review

10/10

Level 100.

I'm really surprised about the commentators referring to "сrappy special effects" in Kin-dza-dza. Are you crazy guys ? Re-watch "Terminator" with all that crappy cheezy stop-motion in bare endosceletone scenes. LEGO brick movies fans shoot the same with a cheap camera. Just think that "сrappy soviet SFX" in Kin-dza-dza uses no stop-motion or scale-down, all Plukan flying tech moves absolutely smoothly and is integrated into the picture completely seamlessly. Compare this to any famous same age sci-fis. Robocop-2 uses stop-motion to animate a scale-down figure of Robocain, and Robocop is a live actor imitating robo-moves inside a costume. And in Kin-dza-dza you see all fantastic Plukan flying tech like real-time real-size (no scale down, no stop-motion) moving objects integrated into the picture seamlessly. So please, just don't confuse the minimalistic design of Plukan starcrafts which is an important part of the scenario with poor rendition of SFX in this movie. Plukan tech is minimalistic dirty rusty crappy looking squeaking - it was deliberately planned so by the movie makers and conveys some ideas.