Wonderful character development!

good back-story, and good acting

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This movie is absolutely sympathetic. Done in the Soviet Communist era, it has nothing in common with that typical propaganda. On the contrary, it is an original piece, full of poetry and humor. Hard to fit in a particular genre, it has a bit of everything: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi. The actors are full of charm, precise and inspired direction, original and generous story, pleasant music. The word Ku is repeated too often, obsessively even. I think it is intentionally, as a parable to the communist society, where everything was obsessive... There are scenes in the movie that led me to Tarkovsky's "Stalker". Other scenes, like for example the one with The Huge Woman at Subway Station, or the one with The Fat Woman Settled Under the Ferris Wheel, made me think at some of Fellini's films.

USSR 135m, Colour Director: Georgiy Daneliya; Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Yevgeni Leonov, Yury Yakovlev, Levan GabriadzeKin-dza-dza! is a brilliantly bizarre dystopian science fiction movie set in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy on the planet Plyuk which is near devoid of its natural resources, and where social status is based on the colour of your pants. Essentially a buddy movie, Mashkov and Gedevan are two unsuspecting Russian citizens who are accidentally transported to Plyuk where they are befriended by a pair of capitalistic, nose-bell trading, telepathic entertainers who want nothing more than the box of matches that Mashkov has in his pocket. As outsiders, they must adopt the galaxy's hilariously strange customs if they hope to find a way back to earth in this superbly conceived, darkly humorous, and thoughtful social satire (Klaus Ming June 2013).

To the person from Russia to speak about this film easier. I am pleasantly surprised, that this film is pleasant to foreigners. I also am pleasantly surprised, that foreigners protect this film from fools. Thanks! To look this film it is necessary slowly, it is necessary to listen and understand, that actors speak. In this film plays great Russian actor Leonov, play talented actors Yakovlev and Lyubshin. I wish to remind, that the native land of modern realistic actor's school is Russia.The director of film - an outstanding director of cinema of the USSR. The brilliant script is written by the director together with Gabriadze.It is very complex to look film with subtitles. But, in my opinion, it is a unique way to keep film in an original kind. Dear ladies and gentlemen! My advice: look this film, one of the best films of my Native land.

While it is easy to say what the film is, a satire about socialisation, it is extremely difficult to liken it to other films, which I'd actually loved to do in order to give the world an idea of what to expect. That'd be, in this case, a valuable service, since this is a very valuable, yet demanding film.I've seen Russian films like the "national hunting"-series or "the diamond arm". They are not bad but neither extraordinary and in order to give you an idea of my view on things I'll liken them to "police academy" in the first and a mixture of "one, two, three" and "chumscrubber" in the second case (the "national hunting"-series starting at least a little better than its counterpart, while "the diamond arm" does of course not reach Wilder's level.)Having this said, I'd like to say that Kin-Dza-Dza is the funniest and by far intellectually most serious comedy that I have ever seen. It is a thought experiment. What happens, if humanities biggest vice, envy, is lifted of it, while the second and third biggest vices, craving for recognition and to turn a blind eye to one's sense of honour, go unchecked. Without anything to honour everything becomes ku or kyu, the individual becoming a mere receiver of petting. That's the dark note that underlies the film, while its humour stems mostly from the brilliant depiction of the people's cravings for recognition.I absolutely love this film and I absolutely love the acting in it. This is berserkly funny, yet discerning stuff.