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A Soviet cult [[Genre Busting|sci-fi dystopian post-apocalyptic satirical]] 1986 [[Georgi Danelia]] movie about two soviet citizens getting [[Trapped in Another World|stranded on another planet.]] They deal with telepathic [[Human Aliens|human aliens]], [[Fish Out of Water|figure out how things are done there]] and try to get home.
Google Video has [https://web.archive.org/web/20121010063654/http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2251461878127683608 an English subtitled version].
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Fiddler
* [[Creator Cameo]]: The director (Georgiy Daneliya) stars as Abradox on Alpha.
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* [[Crapsack World]]: Pluck and the entire galaxy of [[Title Drop|Kin-Dza-Dza]]. They make contrast with [[Crystal Spires and Togas]] below.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: "If you think that this thingy isn't tranklucator, it'll be the last thought in your Chatlanian head!"
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* [[Ear Worm]]: the main theme and the "Mama" song.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: PJ's mother
* [[Executive Meddling]]: originally Fiddler was supposed to give the music professor presents from his trip in Abkhazia along with the violin that he forgot because he got drunk. One of the presents was [
** It does lead to the [[Running Joke]] of people trying to drink the vinegar and spitting it out. Finally an etsilop confiscates it from Fiddler and despite the characters warning him off, drinks the entire thing with no signs of distress.
** The joke only became more [[Incredibly Lame Pun|acidic]], because during the late Soviet Prohibition, unsurprisingly, drinking liquids previously considered undrinkable became a rather common occurence.
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* [[Intimidation Demonstration]]: An etsilop performed [[Diagonal Cut]] on a faraway water... er, ''sand'' tower just to make a point.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: The Fiddler collects any "unknown alien metals" and technology he can get by barter or plain theft. [[For Science!]] Turned [[Up to Eleven]] when he tries to ''kidnap an alien prisoner''.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Might seem to be the case with the Alphians, but really subverted once you think about it. Oh, sure, they [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|turn the tresspassers from Kin-Dza-Dza into cacti]], but when you compare it with what the residents of KDD do to each other (and, [[All There in the Manual|in the script]], what they attempted to do to Alpha ''thrice''), i.e. [[Complete Monster|exterminate whole planets just because fuck them]], it looks pretty tame. They are also eager to help two complete strangers, who BTW are also tresspassing on their territory, return home FOR FREE, and willing to tolerate [[Ungrateful Bastard|quite a bit of undeserved rudeness from them]]. Finally, seeing how Alpha is positioned exactly so as to prevent travel from KDD into Earth space, [[WMG|one might argue]] that Alphians are actually guarding our space against the invaders from KDD.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The "gravitsappa".
* [[Mary Suetopia]]: Alpha starts like a sterile place with very polite people and nice gardens.
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* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Uncle Vova at first, although he eventually learns better.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: more or less the whole population of Kin-Dza-Dza (at least of two planets, and no reasons to believe others are any better).
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Uef: "So that we don't do it to them first."
Gidevan: "And why would you do that?"
Uef: "So that they don't hang over our heads." }}
* [[Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap]]: Pluck's inhabitants destroyed the ecology on their own world and converted every single drop of natural water on the planet to <s>plastic</s> lutz. Matchsticks (made of natural wood and sulfur) are incredibly valuable on Pluck.
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