Up-and-coming sf impresario John Ordover (proprietor of the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art) in association with sf radio host Jim Freund, announces “the first of several screenings at the Gallery on Tuesday 8 June at 6:30PM.” The first film on the docket is Kin-Dza-Dza, which Ordover describes as The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy meets Glasnost. This “1986 satirical science fiction film from the Soviet Union is a cult classic for expatriates and members of former satellite countries. It film has never properly been shown in the West. It got a recent release on DVD, thereby enabling this rare screening.”
Ordover offers this precis of the film: “Foreman Uncle Vova and Georgian student Gedevan accidentally find themselves on a strange desert planet, Plyuk, in the faraway galaxy ‘Kin-Dza-Dza’. The planet’s inhabitants look like humans and understand them, because they can read people’s minds, although their own language is pretty limited. Virtually everything is expressed by one word—’koo’. The planet’s entire population is divided into two castes: the superior ‘Chatlians’ and the lower ‘Patsaks’. Uncle Vova and Gedevan quickly find out that they are Patsaks and must learn enough about Plyuk to get back to Earth—if they can!” The film is subtitled, for those who don’t speak Russian.
A trailer is available this description of the film. And more than 4,000 voters give it an 8.1 out of 10 rating on IMDb.
Doors open at 6PM at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art, 138 Sullivan Street, New York City. Admission is $9.