
1986 | 2h 15m
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

Irina Shmeleva
Tsan - The Desert Stage-Cart Driver

Olga Mashnaya
Decont - A Teleportation Officer at Alpha

Georgiy Daneliya
Abradox - The Governor of Alpha

Aleksandra Dorokhina
woman in tunnel

Galina Daneliya-Yurkova
Mashkov's wife

Vladimir Fyodorov
Yellow Pants
This is wonderfully absurd, and leans heavily into the late-era Soviet ideals and expressive artstyle. The protagonist is arrogant and really really dumb, thinking that things will conform to the way he believes the world to be and necessarily behave, when it is under no such obligation. The situations he is put into therefore becomes troublesome not only, but primarily due to his own utter incomprehension of his situation. The movie is well-produced, looks entirely distinct from most anything else, but is hard to truly engage with, as you cannot easily empathize with the protagonists, not understand the antagonists at all.