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Kin-Dza-Dza! Blu-ray presents one of the most singular science fiction films ever produced, a deadpan cosmic satire that transforms existential despair into surreal comedy. Directed by Georgiy Daneliya, this cult Soviet classic imagines a universe where logic has collapsed, language has been reduced to nonsense syllables, and social hierarchy is enforced through the colour of one’s trousers.
 
When two ordinary Muscovites — a blunt construction foreman and a Georgian violin student — encounter a strange homeless man asking about their planet’s number in the “Tentura,” they are instantly transported across the galaxy to the desert planet Pluke. There, wooden matches are priceless currency, society is ruled by arbitrary customs, and communication consists largely of the words “ku” and “kyu.” What follows is a bleakly hilarious journey through an alien civilization that feels disturbingly familiar.
 
Often described as Andrei Tarkovsky colliding with Douglas Adams, Kin-Dza-Dza! blends absurdist humour with biting political satire, skewering bureaucracy, class systems, and institutional stupidity across all ideologies and planets. Its strange imagery — balloon-marked graves, collapsed ferris wheels as housing, and barter-based social codes — builds a universe that is simultaneously ridiculous and unsettling.
 
Restored by Mosfilm for its first-ever U.S. release and presented by Deaf Crocodile in association with Seagull Films, this edition delivers the definitive presentation of a film widely regarded as one of the most underrated science fiction works of the last half-century.
 
directed by: Georgiy Daneliya
starring: Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze
1986 / 135 min / Russian

Kin-Dza-Dza! [Blu-ray]

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  • BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
    • new restoration from the original camera negative and sound elements by Mosfilm
    • new hour-long video interview with lead actor Levan Gabriadze on the making of Kin-Dza-Dza! and the contributions of co-writer Rezo Gabriadze
    • new video interview on Kin-Dza-Dza! and Soviet science fiction cinema with Stephen R. Bissette
    • new audio commentary by film critic Walter Chaw
    • new written essay by film historian Justin Humphreys
    • “Got a Match? On Vodka and Vinegar at the End of History,” new video essay by Ryan Verrill and Dr. Will Dodson
    • Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
    • new artwork by Lucas Peverill and Beth Morris

     

    Additional details
    Label: Deaf Crocodile
    Edition: standard edition
    Region: region A
    Language: Russian with English subtitles

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