KIN DZA-DZA! 2023 trailer

Now available on blu-ray!

KIN-DZA-DZA! – 1986, Mosfilm, 135 min.Dir. Georgiy Daneliya.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 violin student (Levan 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. In Russian with English subtitles.

[felegz]

Love this movie. I strongly believe that Blue-ray release must have subtitles in Patsak-o-vision, with color differentiation: green subtitles for Patskaks and orange subtitles for Chatlans

[Barrythetick]

i'm sold !!! Looking forward to it -- looks like a lotta fun

[noahberkley]

Woowwowowowowo. OMG drea come true. This is amazing news

[patrickcraig]

Very excited for this, one of the films I’ve been wanting a release for most.

[LeDanPrimaQua]

It looks great. Will there be a 2K restoration of the movie “Passport” by the same director in this case?

[tgamirov]

When are you getting more of these on Blu-ray?