USSR, 1986
135m
35mm film, colour
Georgian, Russian
A Soviet Russian science fiction film directed by Georgiy Daneliya.
Plot Summary
A man meets a stranger in Moscow who offers him a teleportation device. Whn he and a busker accidentally press abutton they find themselves transported through time and space to the desert planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Georgiy Daneliya
Mosfilm
Written by: Georgiy Daneliya, Revaz Gabriadze
Director of Photography: Pavel Lebeshev
Editor: N. Dobrunova [real name: Natalya Dobrunova.[/mfn]
Music: Giya Kancheli
Sound: Ekaterina Popova
Special Effects Supervisor: Sergey Khramtsov
Production Designers: Aleksandr Samulekin, Teodor Tezhik
Cast
Stanislav Lyubshin (Uncle Vova)
Galina Daneliya-Yurkova (Lyudmila)
Levan Gabriadze (Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze)
Anatoli Serenko (the barefoot wanderer from Uzm)
Yury Yakovlev (Bi the Patsak)
Yevgeny Leonov (Wef the Chatlanian)
Alexander Litovkin (the gang leader)
Valentin Bukin (black-moustached ecilop)
Irina Shmelyova (Tsan, the cart driver)
Lev Perfilov (Kyrr)
Nina Ruslanova (Galina Borisovna)
Yuri Voronkov (bearded Chatlanian)
Olesya Ivanova (cage-banging white sectarian woman)
Lyudmila Solodenko (sand-throwing black sectarian girl)
Vitali Leonov (Shorty)
Nikolai Garo (Lord Pezhe)
Igor Bogolyubov (Lord Pezhe's personal Patsak)
Victor Marenkov (Patsak)
Aleksandr Gorbachyov (grey-moustached elderly ecilop)
Yelena Mashkova-Sulakadze (watchman's wife)
Alternative Titles
Husigi Wakusei Kin-Za-Za – Japanese title
Kin-Dza-Dza – Hungarian title
References
Books
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.272
