I still can't believe if came out in the eighties, still poignant today!

And, 'It's a capitalist country' is still the funniest line in the whole film - had me in tears - and yet, on SadGeezer.com, some of the members actually were a but upset about that - amazing! (they couldn't see the humour and self effacing elements of the rest of the film! - I guess humanity still has a bit to learn)

@@SadCASTs Poignant today like never before

@@SadCASTs Yes, the way he said that 10 seconds into the contact has me in tears too. Those who didn't like it just know too little to appreciate it

​@@SadCASTsseems like it was just a throw away line from a communist film.

lol, I aspire to get purple pants - they're shiny :)

+++++;)))

Thank you. My wife did most of the work, she's russian.

Прикол в том, что в фильме говорят на детском языке. Все маленькие дети так говорят в начале жизни...

All the worst has already became true a long time ago before the movie. Today its called capitalism.

It's an absurdist film. Comedy.

​@@WiseOwl_1408not really, its a metaphore film, simply because director could not say/show in USSR everything hew wanted due to censorship

Thanks for the clarification :)

"Зелёная" водородная энергетика. 😊

They made luts from everything. That’s why their planets is empty

yep, lots of different feeling - I'll be honest though, I wasn't that impressed with the Alphans either, I suspect that I wouldn't have lasted long before being turned into a prickly plant :)

Спасибо. Лучший комментарий к этому фильму, который я здесь прочитал.

@@SadCASTs Alpha is the "democracies"

Same here. In my younger age I listened psy-trance artist with the name "Kindzadza", 1 week ago I found out that a movie existed with the same name from which they took the name, I watched and I was surprised how come I have never heard of this movie. Who knows what other great movie I missing at the moment.

Interesting, I assumed that this was entrenched in Russian culture. As a westerner, if I visit Russia and someone says something that I don't understand I imitate Bi and look confused and mutter, "ku?" I usually get a smile and they speak more slowly :)

@@SadCASTs Well, yes, many do recognize it, especially peoples who is bit older. You see in USSR there was not so much movies to show in movie theaters and same on TV, so many movies was repeated many many times, ofc, better ones usually. Kin Dza Dza was one of them, not so much showed as "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" or "Office Romance", still its widely recognized, but not everyone liked it anyway. If you dont have much of option you watch thats on TV.

@@Vednier только одна Одесская киностудия сняла более 300 фильмов. А таких киностудий в СССР было больше 20. О чем вы говорите, когда говорите "не было фильмов и показывали одно и тоже"?

Ошибаетесь. Фильм широко известен и даже имеет свой фан клуб. Более того. Уже в современной России сам Данелия снял мультипликационный вариант Кин-дза-дза

haha, yeah, cracked me up too

@@SadCASTs this is not "capitalist country", this is "what's this country?"

@@user-wx5bc5gm1l it's cap country, he literally says кап страна, cap country, capitalist country.

I'm doing well, thank you for the kind words. Sadgeezer.com is an archive site these days, but I'm still very much into cult sci fi. If you liked Kin Dza Dza I would suggest American Astronaut as an interesting western alternative. Kin Dza Dza is still my favourite sci fi movie - I'm glad you liked it too :)

согласен! но судя по тому что я начитал тут в комментах я понял что они не способны этого понять. наоборот они видят в плюканцев советский строй и даже не замечают что плюканцы помешаны на власти,статусе и денег.

I agree, and the effects of paranoia and environmental decline, loads of stuff... and still poignant today!

The same applies to communism too:))))) And any autocratic and totalitarian regime:)))))

@@LAZISH коммунизм не является автократическим, авторитарным или тоталитарным режимом. Разочарую вас, но в СССР был социализм и то, не доведенный до конца. А вот нынешний Запад как раз тоталитарен, достаточно вспомнить американский маккартизм.

@@user-iz6mc9ri2d Well, it turned out autocratic lol:)))))) And also plutocratic since it ws just an utopy that at the end transformed into distopy:)))))

И 2 грамма КЦ

Spaseeba! KU! :)

@@skarabeydm не в граммах исчисляется а в штуках. Пол КЦ, одно КЦ, немножко КЦ (для получения жёлтых штанов), много КЦ (для малиновых штанов)

@dagestan а ты кто?

@dagestan и чё?

Yes, it is an insane amount of work. And their subtitles are pretty darn good. I watched their version back when it was on Google Video. Then I found a copy of Kin-Dza-Dza! in 720p and had to find and add their subtitle file because I didn't like the poor translation of the subtitles that came with it. Only, theirs were not timed to my version of the movie so I had to learn how to use a subtitle program to adjust the timings and get it in sync. Now, years later, I am finally learning more Russian. So, after learning the Cyrillic alphabet I then wanted to watch the movie with Russian/Cyrillic subtitles to further assist in learning, but the subtitles I have found (including those from the closed captioning on the two-part Kin-Dza-Dza! that is available on KZfaq) are out of sync. Probably because they are for the 2-CD version of the movie. So I learned how to download the KZfaq closed captioned Russian subtitles and convert them into a text file and then used Subtitle Edit (A really great, free subtitle program.) to add the Russian subtitles and time them. (This program (Subtitle Edit) is so nice that it has a waveform of the entire audio to the movie so that you can see when and where people are speaking and just create your subtitle at that location and adjust it's length. You can just slide the subtitles around on the timeline and stretch them or shrink the length! Such a lifesaver compared to doing it manually...) This has taken me many hours a day for about a week now. Mostly because when I got to the second half of the movie (part 2), the subtitles started to be incorrect and/or missing words, or entire phrases or sentences... So, I have to figure them out and I don't even know much Russian yet. lol Luckily I know enough now to be able to tell if it's incorrect - if that is what they are saying or not. This would have been impossible without first learning the Cyrillic alphabet. I have over 1500 lines of subtitles (I added every single Ку, Кю, and Ах, as well as many descriptions like [Звон телефона] or [Аплодировать] such that even a deaf person who can read Russian could enjoy the movie and know what's going on. I am at the 2-hour mark of the 2-hour, twelve-minute movie. Hoping to get it done tonight so I can watch it and enjoy all of my hard work!. :)

Every minute was a pleasure. It wasn't a labour of love at all, it was great fun. They aren't as accurate as we had hoped, but they are made with love :)

@@flawlessstrategy9972 Thanks you so much for your comments :)

Yep, reminded me of my home town in England (Blackpool) but with more sun :)

glad someone got it on point)

The film is about a pure socialist future. What kind of cretins are here in the comments.

...because Soviet citizens who created this movie knew everything about capitalism, lol. Should I remind you that there was no free exit from the USSR at that time?)

@@PeskadorDHomes Ha, ha, ha. Lovely Postmodernist Neo Marxists:))))))))

NO WAY! I didn't know that. Checking... but thanks for the heads up (he's surprisingly godlike in his performance, would be fitting for him to be the director too :)

@@SadCASTs Umm, no offense, but have you been to another planet for 5 years?

@@zvimur I know right! So embarrassing. I guess I'm a bit old for doing SadCasts, I need to find some people who are younger and more attractive in front of a camera :) To be honest, spent a lot of the last 12 months on re-vamping the sadgeezer.com website - SadCasts is only part of that infrastructure and it's a bit big for an armature like me to maintain. Labour of love :)

@@SadCASTs I suspect you're younger than me (I watched Gentlemen of Fortune in cinema), also braver.

Danelia's trick. Small episode in each his movie.

В русской аудитории он как раз безумно популярен. А вот почему он в других странах не дублирован - вопрос к вашему кинопрокату.

@@user-iz6mc9ri2d Даже в русской аудитории, он популярен, но все таки менее, чем многие другие фильмы советского периода. А на мой взгляд это лучший фильм тех времен.

Мой любимый фильм. Просто многие не сразу "догоняют", по этой причине даже не досматривают кино до конца. А если досмотрят, то пока (и если) просекут фишку, им нужно пересмотреть этот фильм с перерывом в несколько лет. При этом, если смысл начинает доходить, то такие люди пересматривают его снова. И снова...

What is the original name of the movie "the poison in the universe" ?

I'll definitely check them out. Thanks. (Personally my fave sci fi movie of all time is Stalker tho), Just watched Zero City too which was good.

@@omoikane8961 It's not poison (bad auto translation - russian transliteration is "Otroki (young teens) vo Vselennoj (In the Universe)

yep, totally agree. Strangely tho, I'm reminded of 6th Sense when I watch this. :) Definately sexier, but also a bit whacky too :) American Astronaut is the nearest comparison I can think of from the west....... unless anyone else can provide some comparison suggestions?

ку

ku to you tu! :)

My wife is Russian, she told put the film on for me knowing how much a fan I am of cult sci fi. She read a translation out as I watched transfixed! It was great! Loved every minute.

Thanks you. My wife did that, I just encoded them.

Thanks, I actually met the cast of LEXX (alas except Xenia) and wrote up most of the reviews on sadgeezer.com.

I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! It always looked really warm to me.

И опять ошиблись

I think it's pro-Soviet but not too much, most all films of this time have a moral quality to them in my opinion, even if it's very light. When they all arrive to trade the matches for gravitsappa, Bi says to Vova, something like, "You have a wife at home, an idiot son and an unpaid apartment. Why are you here playing with matches?" So this is supposed to have the viewer introspect about the economic system they lived in: centrally planned and social, or on Pluke: utterly unplanned and private. Kind of prescient when you think of how barter became prevalent in the bloc countries in just the next decade. As well, Vova and Gedevan going back to save Uef and Bi has the "we're all in this together" quality to it. I would even argue Dersu Uzala has a light quality of that sort, that of painting the Imperial Russians as unifiers and rightful authorities in those lands, but that's just a little feeling I get.

@@NohRoom great take , I loved Dersu Uzala also . Reminds me too much of the city I grew up in used to be a gulag heheh.

А ты оригинален

Да-да, всё верно.

Ku to you Tu!

Yep but subtitles aren't so good. Small example: they use "rear word" as translation for "заднее слово". I don't think english speakers understand that it's "last word". Or do they?

@@znzib in this example the translation is correct as it preserves the clunkiness of the original phrase - no one says "заднее слово" in actual Russian.

@@znzib lol, no they don't - personally I would have thought it meant bum word :) But then I'm just sad :)

Ku to you tu! :)

Interesting. I must have missed that. There was a film review show by a geezer called Mark Kermode (prolly musspelled) that I watched and saw lots of cool sci fi from around Europe. But I never saw Kin Dza Dza, shame (had to marry a Russian instead 😂)

Hi, thanks for the kind words. Also recommended are American Astronaut, Fantastic Planet [1973], 6th Sense and Stalker. All cool cult sci fi films. Lately, there have been some great sci fi series too (checkout sadgeezer.com for recommendations :) )

@@SadCASTs Thanks, some of them I have already watched, I will definitely check the others out.

@@demiaml18 If you like unusual TV shows too, there is a pretty good one recently out called "The School Nurse Files" from Korea, it's pretty out there and I thought it was great. It's currently on Netflix.

@@SadCASTs Cool, I will also check this one out, thanks a lot for the recommendations!

Stalker maybe .. Solaris .. Made by Andrei Tarkovski .. he has more good ones ..

ку

Lol, Google Video was withdrawn when google bought KZfaq a few years ago. I'm not sure where you can see our subbed copy of Kin Dza Dza now, sorry.

If you have a copy of the video, you can get subs based on mine and Newkate's files here: www.kin-dza-dza.org.ru/topic280.html

Lol, I actually prefer Kin Dza Dza and I'm and English geezer :)

@@SadCASTs i think age is matter :)

:)

lo, Ku to you tu!

Ку

Ku to you tu! :)

kind of, yeah. with the cult status in former USSR almost equal to Star Wars.

@@paulzx2000 not even close) you must cure yourself from anti-soviet/russophobic propaganda to understand who really are the "plukians"

​@@harb1911 Me (born in Yugoslavia) also think knows who they are, don't want to say it because there are already too many "Plukians" who will be butthurt ;).

OMFG! Yes: After reading your post I keep thinking of, "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure...." haha :) Philip K. Dick on dope maybe :)

@@SadCASTs Apparently you are not so imbued with his work. I wrote that Philip in his works liked to resort to metaphorical parallels with reality, while ridiculing and even condemning many of its moments.

Get me some sand. *Flies away

But we have matches :)

о этот ельцинский советский союз 90-х...

Ku to you tu!

Good point, but to be honest, I've also had people tell me that it was 'Obviously Ani-Western propaganda', apparently because of the scene when they landed in the desert, "It must be a capitalist country". Haha, some people are just kyoo :)

@@SadCASTs "Pluke was designed to be a metaphor of Soviet Union." what a load of heresy! it was a pure parody to the WEST and its influence to the soviet youth of that time. yeah! believe or not i saw it with my own eyes how that poison turned us in to mercantile soulless plukians. Uncle Vova and Gedevan where the pure essence of soviet people that got downgraded to poor "patsaks" in to Plukian society which is nothing more than a prediction to the upcoming USSR dissolution and following events. those things are very hard to explain to westerners for obvious reasons. you must live in those events by yourself to understand my toughs. Kin-Dza-Dza is nothing more than an adaptation of "Dunno on the Moon" for mature people. both are nothing more than a conceptual warning message.

сомнеаюсь

Metaphor of Soviet Union!? I beg to differ and think you missed the whole point of the movie.

@@harb1911 I get that it's a warning - for me, a masterful one. I'm just not so sure it applies only to Russia, modern or Soviet. I see a lot of things in it that all of humanity can learn from, personally, that's one of the tings that makes it so endearing for me.

haha!

You mean Ilon Mask copied from two Georgian gangsters Danelia and Gabriadze? LOL:)))))

Yeah well, whenever we talk about war crimes or bad things the USSR did, Russia gets the blame, so they may as well take the credit for their achievements too 😂

@@weetbix4497 No, all people of USSR get both blame and credit for whatever was done by USSR.

Hello!

Ku to you tu! :)

ку ку

Ku to you tu! :)

Ku to you tu! :)

I didn't know that, thanks for sharing.

Most importantly, the screenwriter was Revaz Gabriadze outstanding Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. Levan Gabriadze is Revaz's son:)))))

Даннлия- Советский режиссёр и учился в Советской школе и Советском вузе. В СССР не было цветовой дифференциации штанов и людей

No!Please watch the move.

This review holds up well haha

@@Skimeric Thanks and Ku to you tu!