I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Expected more

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

My first Soviet film, and I hope not the last! A very, very quirky sci-fi film where, like most sci-fi films, somebody's trying to get home but everybody else is stopping him. Except that him is two hims, and these hims can't speak the language, don't know the customs of their unintentional prison, and simply have no idea what's going on. It has spaceships, yes, but comparing them to the Enterprise is like comparing a 1980's Lamborghini to a 1980's Lada. The spaceship in question is a metal shed that seems to float around of it's own accord. And when you step inside, you're greeted with something that looks more like a U-Boat than a spaceship.Overall, a good film, but not one that I would watch over and over.

Georgiy Danelia's "Kin-dza-dza!" is part science fiction, part comedy, part social satire. When a pair of passers-by touch a strange object held by a man on a street in Moscow, they find themselves standing on a desert planet in another galaxy. It's a stratified society, a bit like what the Mad Max movies depict. The human-looking inhabitants have their own slang, their own clothes, and their own technology. But there's a lot in store.It's one of the more bizarre movies out there. When you look at what it depicts, it's clear that this sort of movie could have only gotten released under Gorbachev, when the Soviet Union finally started owning up to its mistakes. In general I interpret it as having the same basic gist of some of Terry Gilliam's movies: a look at the desire to escape from our modern world (depicted in "Time Bandits" and "Brazil").Worth seeing.

'Kin Dza Dza' is the kind of film that comes along every once in a blue moon. It's a very simple story of two very ordinary and very different strangers, one Russian, the other Georgian. Whilst going about their normal, every day business they inadvertently become stuck in a rather extra-ordinary situation, with no understanding of where they are or how they got there. The film follows them as they attempt to get home, meeting all manner of strange people with very strange concepts of hierarchy, race, society and culture. A very simple premise. When I first saw this movie I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I came across it by pure fluke one day in my university's video library when I was looking for an interesting Cold War era Soviet film to watch. It's easy to see why it is viewed as a cult classic by many Russians and Georgians alike. The cinematography is surprisingly enticing. It's not particularly inspired, but it somehow just drifts along with the characters. The shots of the desert are bold and striking, whereas the shots inside ships or inside the nomads' homes are dark, cluttered and uninviting. There are stark differences between all the set pieces, and the director is thankfully skilled enough to make the transitions between these vastly different sets seamlessly. The music is very simple and almost casual as it drifts in and out of focus very subtly with the sequences on-screen. The acting is also something to behold. It fits very much in line with the ethos this film seems to carry: simplicity. The characters in this film range from the stoic and reserved, to the verbose and hyperbolically animated. All the actors play their roles very well, adding memorable nuances to their characters, and really helping to convey the peculiarity and absurdity of the situation being portrayed. The underlying motive of this film appears to be to convey a message of equality. 'Kin Dza Dza' is a film which, through humour and through sheer simplicity, is able to make the viewer realise the absurdity of social and racial discrimination. I whole-heartedly recommend watching it. It's comical, it's whimsical, it's witty and it's poignant. Well worth the time, if you're able to acquire it.

English/American culture (for the most part) tends to be rather reclusive, for example, there are virtually no foreign language songs on the radio. Because of this, many classics are missed, simply because people do now know about them.This movie is the best example of a great classic unknown. If it would be made it Brittan in the sixties, it would have defiantly achieved cult status, and be widely regarded as all-time sci-fi classic. Alas, it is in Russian, and made at the end of the cold war, and therefore virtually unknown outside of the former Soviet Union.The movie is full of wonderfully black humour (if you are higher up on the social scale, you sleep on a bed without nails, and they cannot beat you in the middle of the night), desert world with rusted metal structures, and wonderfully eccentric telepathic aliens with bizarre social structures.This movie is truly a must see – a word of warning however, this is so far from a Hollywood movie, it is it's evil twin. Unlike Hollywood it has: A story Strong characters Crap special effects Complete lack of "touchy feely"To get the best experience: 1. find subtitled version 2. find a Russian to watch it with you