Kin-dza-dza!

Two 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

Olga Mashnaya

as Decont - A Teleportation Officer at Alpha

Georgiy Daneliya

as Abradox - The Governor of Alpha

Aleksandra Dorokhina

as woman in tunnel

Galina Daneliya-Yurkova

as Mashkov's wife

Reviews

Sierbahnn

This is wonderfully absurd, and leans heavily into the late-era Soviet ideals and expressive artstyle. The protagonist is arrogant and really really dumb, thinking that things will conform to the way he believes the world to be and necessarily behave, when it is under no such obligation. The situati...

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