‘Kin-dza-dza’, a 1986 Soviet comedy-science fiction film directed by Georgi Daneliya will be screened July 28 at the Russian Centre, Colombo 7.
The film is a dark and grotesque parody of human society and may be described as a dystopia. It depicts a desert planet, depleted of its resources, home to an impoverished dog-eat-dog society with extreme inequality and oppression.
Foreman Uncle Vova and Georgianstudent Gedevan accidentally found themselves on a strange desert planet, Plyuk, in the faraway galaxy “Kin-Dza-Dza”. The planet’s inhabitants looked like humans and understood Russian, because they could read people’s minds, although their own language was pretty limited. Virtually everything, with a rare exception, was expressed by one word – “koo”. The planet’s entire population was divided into two castes: the superior one – “chatlians”, and the lower one – “patsaks”. Uncle Vova and Gedevan, who learned they were patsaks, had been trying throughout the film to get back to Earth, in which they finally succeeded, after many an adventure…
The film won Special Jury Prize “For Artistic Conception” at the Rio de Janeiro IFF – 1987. |
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