Kin-dza-dza!

Kin-dza-dza!

Release Date:  12/1/1986
Country of Release:  Soviet Union
Length:  135 (128?) minutes
MPAA: 
Medium:  Video
Genre:  COM DRA SF
Release Message:  Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
Description:  Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms. A man meets a stranger in Moscow who offers him a teleportation device. When he and a busker accidentally press a button they find themselves transported through time and space to the desert planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy. Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an "advanced cyberpunk film". It's a lot about people and social structures which on the planet of "Pluke" of course have many parallels to our society. It's a very funny movie, but it's also a melancholic movie with great philosophical sense.