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| Directed by | Georgy Danelia,Tatyana Ilyina [ru] |
| Written by | Georgy Danelia,Andrey Usachov |
| Produced by | Konstantin Ernst,Leonid Yarmolnik |
| Starring | Nikolai Gubenko,Andrei Leonov,Alexei Kolgan,Aleksandr Adabashyan |
| Music by | Giya Kancheli |
| Distributed by | CTB,Channel One Russia |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | 140 mln. rubles |
Ku! Kin-dza-dza (Russian: Ку! Кин-дза-дза) is a 2013 Russian animatedscience fiction film byGeorgy Danelia and his last film before his death in 2019. It is an animatedremake of Danelia's 1986 live-action filmKin-dza-dza!. Although it preserves much of the original movie'ssocial commentary,Ku! Kin-dza-dza is notably less dark anddystopian than the original, and more targeted towards youth and an international audience. The film is mainly traditionally animated with some computer animation in it.
The remake follows the plot of the original with minor changes. While the original story was set in 1980s, the remake is set in 2010s, some of the scenes were altered, and the two new protagonists are different from their 1986 counterparts.
A renowned cellist Vladimir Chizhov (Uncle Vova) and his teenage nephew Tolik meet an alien with a teleportation device. Tolik carelessly pushes a button on the device, and he and Uncle Vova are beamed to the planet Plyuk in Kin-dza-dza galaxy. The planet is a post-apocalyptic desert without resources, ruled by a brutal racist regime. The two travellers meet three locals, Bi, Wef and their robot Abradox, who travel on a pepelats and constantly try to cheat and betray the naive newcomers. Tolik and Uncle Vova have to go a long distance through the rusting world of Kin-dza-dza to find their way home.
The film was met with generally favorable reviews in Russian media. It holds an average rating of 82 out of 100 at Russian review aggregator Kritikanstvo.[1]Ku! Kin-dza-dza received positive reviews from Russian version ofEmpire,Mir Fantastiki,Argumenty i Fakty,Rossiyskaya Gazeta,Trud andIzvestiya, and mediocre ratings fromLenta.ru,Vedomosti andAfisha. Outside Russia, Vassilis Kroustallis at Zippyframes gave the film a positive review.[2]