Saw Kin-dza-dza again after a long time.
Still as weird and as hilarious as the first time. Doesn’t seem to get old. Pro tip: if you want your scifi flick still look cool 40 years later, use only scrap iron and other junk in sets. Dress everyone in cheapest rags you can dig up. It never goes out of style.
Ku!
Also takes me back to that night in a pub in Nizhny Novgorod on our trans-Siberian train trip w/ @manna.
We met those two Alexeys. The other one didn’t speak a word of English, but after I blurted ”ku!” to him, we had a long and meaningful conversation just saying ”ku!” to each other in turn.
@manna We also watched Engineer Garin’s Hyperboloid, another #soviet #cult #scifi film.
That was weird, maybe less intentionally as Kin-dza-dza, but still entertaining.
No slow-burn Slavic storytelling whatsoever! The pacing was so fast that I had some trouble keeping up with all the plot-twists. Apparently the director had just decided to skip over all the boring parts of the original book. Pretty astonishing for a mid-sixties soviet film.
Both had just excellent photography, really a-class.
jabsonik
Manna N