Kin-Dza-Dza

[redthroatedloon]

Last night, the Significant Other and I threw a party for several of our friends at which we showed what has to be the weird Russia scifi movie around: Kin-Dza-Dza. It's sort of a Soviet version of Hitchhiker's Guide. Two guys accidentally get transported to another planet, where "Koo," is the most used term in the language, and matches are the most valuable form of currency -- and then it starts to get weird. Wonderful stuff.

The only real problem is that it is not available in any English language version. We managed to get hold of a copy that some British fans subtitled, but as far as I know, the Internet is the only way to get hold of this thing -- unless you can find it in a Russian deli/neighborhood, but then you won't have the subtitles.

Even all the fan sites for this one is in Russian. There's one that features some stills, and another that seems to have the script, including some dialogue files.

Koo.

Comments

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

another that seems to have the script

I love foreign-language websurfing. "Um, it looks like a script! I guess? I mean, I suppose it could be an interview of some kind..."

[redthroatedloon.livejournal.com]

The frustrating thing is that I actually took a year of Russian in college, but I hardly now remember how to read the stuff, never mind translate it. I'd love to be able to actually read some of those sites...