Kin Dza Dza – Come on you lot!
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If you haven’t downloaded it and seen it yet then you are REALLY missing out!
I know I keep harping on about this film but it is truely a cult sci fi classic! You deserve to see this film you REALLY do! I wouldn’t have gone through all the hassle of subtitling it (with Newkate) if I didn’t think you would enjoy it! (as far as I know we were the first to subtitle the film!! – I can’t believe it’s not been done before!)
You can download it from the alt.binaries.multimedia.scifi newsgroup (parts one and two) along with the codec (if you don’t have DivX5.02 or above). I re-post every three days (during May) or you can search WinMX Peer to Peer for it (or get streight to my server sadgeezersguide000.
PLEASE – PLEASE download it and tell me what you think!
Here are some coments from people who have seen it on IMDB ([url]http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0091341[/url])
[quote](grob248@aol.com)
Los Angeles, USADate: 10 August 2000
Summary: Mama-mama, chto ya budu delat’…Koo, or should I say Kyu..There isn’t much I have to say about “Kin Dza Dza” that hasn’t been said by the previous reviewers. But I like this movie so much that I could not resist throwing in my two cents. Yea, it’s primitively, or, as someone has pointed out, minimalistically done, so don’t expect any special effects. But you know what, who needs them when the movie is that good. The galaxy “Kin Dza Dza” is the slums of the universe, and it shows us our alternate, post-apocalyptic future with a great sense of humor, pantomime and sarcasm. Great cast too. Lyubshin, Leonov and Yakovlev do a fine job here. Since the film’s director is Georgian, some Georgian gags were thrown in as well. Oh, and did anyone notice Dyadya Vova’s and Gedevan Aleksandrovich’s renditions of Frank Sinatra’s songs? “Blade Runner,” “Brazil,” “The Road Warrior,” and, to a lesser extent, Luc Besson’s “The Final Combat” are all considered to be the classics of the post-apocalyptic, anti-utopian movie worlds. Well, you can add “Kin Dza Dza” to this list. [/quote]
[quote]Ildjarn
Magadan, RussiaDate: 10 April 2000
Summary: A wonderfully minimalistic, absolutely anti-utopic dark sci-fi comedy.“Kin-dza-dza” is a cult movie in Russia – and, in fact, it deserves this status completely, being an absolutely unique, minimalistic and freaky science fiction flick. Completely fantastic – and did I mention minimalistic? – art direction, excellent casting, and, of course, an anti-utopic plot that had miraculously slipped by the Soviet censorship, make this movie a true classic.
Mr. Spielberg, eat your heart out. All that “Light and Magic”, and you still never came close to doing anything like this.[/quote]
[quote]grendel-28
Mad City, WIDate: 9 April 1999
Summary: It’s Ku!For once it should be easy to subtitle – apart from two-three dialogues in Russian the rest of the movie is in Chatlanian, a great language I’d wish on Tolstoy – there are like 10 words in it at all. A great parable worth of Anouilh, masterly photographed and acted (a star cast by all accounts). [/quote]
[quote]Date: 20 February 1999
Summary: Hidden Ideas on PlukKin-dza-dza is definitely one of the best movies I have ever seen. One of my friends said that it was the Russian version of Star Wars, although I feel that it surpasses Star Wars in many ways. The basic plot of the movie is that two Russians (A Muscovite who was out to buy some pasta and a Geargian trying to return a violin) get transported to another planet (Pluk) because they pressed some buttons on a mashinka-peremishenia. Pluk is a desert planet and the movie revolves around the two guys trying to get back to earth. However, I feel that it has several ideas, which you don’t get hit in the face with when you watch the movie. The first is that, although the society seems primitive, it has a lot of technology (pepelaz, gravitzapa, making phone calls between planets…). I feel that this is saying that we can’t really judge anything until we know everything about it. Another idea which was present a lot during the movie was that Pluk may resemble post-apocalyptic Earth. During the movie we see many earth-like structures like small ships and skyscrapers buried in the sands. The remains of carnivals and the remains of a once great civilization. But what if the civilization never disappeared? What if it degenerated to this state? Could we, citizens of earth, turn our oceans into fuel for out space ships? Another thing, what is the difference between having patzaki sing in cages and have birds sing in cages? Finally, PZH is a leader, who just sits in a pool all day, he doesn’t really do anything. Like kings from a time ago. This may just be another thing symbolic with degeneration. Nonetheless, I found the movie funny and enjoyable, even if you aren’t looking for hidden ideas. [/quote]
[quote]D-V
San Jose, CaliforniaDate: 23 January 1999
Summary: Brilliant Sci-Fi comedyNot as dead serious as Blade Runner. Not as neon and air-conditioned as Brazil. It’s not Earth, dear. It’s planet Pluke. Dusty, rusty, dirty.
Amazing technology. To any point of the Universe – in five seconds flat. Unless someone borrowed one vital part of your engine without asking.
Interesting society. Everyone can read each other’s mind. And still be able to lie.
A story of two Earthlings trying to get home from the cruel lying cheating stealing world of the galaxy Kin-Dza-Dza.
Definitely worth watching. Is there a subtitled copy available? I have no idea. [/quote]
[quote]Patrick-32
Moscow, RussiaDate: 16 October 1998
Summary: One of the best anti-utopies in the world cinemaIn my humble opinion, “Kin-Dza-Dza!” belongs to so-called “anti-utopies” (like “We” by E. Zamyatin or “1984” by G. Orwell), showing one of the possible ways of the development of human society – the planet Pluk turned into a desert because all the water was used as a source for “lutz” (fuel for “pepelatzes”, i. e. starships); a society divided into two parts – two different races, Patzaks and Chatlans, who hate each other; a society where the status of a citizen is determined by the number of “katze” (matches) owned by him (“If I have a lot of katze, I have the right to wear crimson trousers, and every Patzak has to squat twice before me, and every Chatlan should make Ku to me, and no etzilopp (policeman) may beat me at night – never!”); a society where a person who does not squat before a hologram of PG (the dictator of the planet) is very likely to be put into an “etzikh” (a tin box) for the rest of his life, or even “tranclucated” (annihilated)… A sad perspective, isn’t it?.. [/quote]
I’ve been very interested in seeing it. I’ll try downloading it from your server (haven’t tried alt.binaries before); wish I could burn it. Hopefully my poor old ‘puter will be able to handle it (at least I have broadband).
BTW, twas a dream of mine to scout out such films, subtitle them, and distribute them over the internet, and to repertory cinemas, especially once digital projectors become more common.
[quote=”Logan”]I’ve been very interested in seeing it. I’ll try downloading it from your server (haven’t tried alt.binaries before); wish I could burn it. Hopefully my poor old ‘puter will be able to handle it (at least I have broadband).[/quote]
THat certainly helps! Both hour long episodes can be downloaded pretty darn quick with high bandwidth. Personally I would go the alt.binaries.multimedia.scifi route (that’s how me and Newkate get our fix of Angel and Buffy as they come out!). There are lots of other cool shows from as far back as the 60s and 70s that are posted for download as well as some that more obviously break copyright (ie. Animatrix).
[quote]BTW, twas a dream of mine to scout out such films, subtitle them, and distribute them over the internet, and to repertory cinemas, especially once digital projectors become more common.[/quote]
I must admit, that certainly got me too. It’s a great feeling doing something like this – especially for a film which is sooooo bloody good! It’s a crime that it’s not been subtitled before!
Unfortunately, if you aren’t professional then you always worry that you will make spelling and grammar errors etc. Eg. there is a mild swear word used in the film called ‘kyoo’. I mistyped it (kjoo) at the beginning and Newkate (the Russian speaker) thought that I was correcting her subtitling and from then on translated kyoo as kjoo. 🙂 It’s not a serious error, but a niggling one.
In the end, you get so close to the project that you end up deciding to re-do the whole thing again! Then I’m going to make a dvd version (for home use only of course) and a low-bandwidth version (small image- large subtitle text) etc. 🙂 What I’m trying to say is that it’s certainly exciting but also absolutely addictive. If it wasn’t for headgehog and the other mods keeping the site going for the last month, I don’t know what I’d have done!
If you ever need info on how to do it, the software that you need etc., tell me – its not difficult, just fiddly.
Sad, I really don’t think my po’ ole’ computer would be able to handle the episodes (too little memory etc. and I have no CD writer, ‘though it’s about bloody time I got one — in fact I’ll probably replace my computer soon as my wife will be going on partial maternity leave in a couple of months, and she’ll do a lot of her work from home which requires fancy software — unfortunately the expense of just buying a new house, coupled with major bread-winner wife’s loss of income, and baby on the way may make this a little hard, but we can manage if I move to full-time — it’s about bloody time!). Also, my wife might be be able to make a VCD of it at her workplace at some time, but it may be better if she doesn’t use alt. binaries from there — if it is possible to use your server as you indicated before, then maybe you could PM me about it.
BTW, thanks for the offer of info on software to use — once we have a new computer I’ll contact you. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be just another one of my pipe-dreams like all my other ones. Hmm, maybe I’ll start a thread in the Pub on broken dreams.
I think I will set up a Hotmail server so that people can upload/download the movie directly from my computer. I’ll set it up with a password this weekend. The Hotmail program is no longer available or supported by it’s creators, but thousands of people still use it. I’ll post an installer on my website this weekend too.
I tried looking for it on the newsgroup. But my newsgroup programs only lists new posts from the last 2 hours only! Unless I check the newsgroup every ten minutes, I’ll miss it when it’s posted. UNLESS there’s something I missed or don’t understand about newsgroup programs. I don’t use them very much… unless it’s alt.binaries.slack.
[quote=”fluffy bunny”]ah the return of the technobabble. Wish I didn’t understand it so I could take the rip :([/quote]
[b][color=orange]It’s a shame you couldn’t post anything helpful![/color][/b][b]Flame[/b], a friend has just given me his copy of Windows Server. Since my home network server is always on (and i have a 1mb connection to the net), he suggested that I set it up as a server and provide the DNS numbers to allow you guys to download the film direct from my home system.
To be honest though, it all looks a bit scary to me, but Newkate is pretty confident, so I hope to be trying it out early next week.
I’m getting lots of cool stuff!! Not only is there Kin Dza Dza, but I also have just managed to get the classic, ‘Fantastic Planet’ which is terrific! I hope to make all this available through my home server if possible.
Tell me how you het on with your attempt! 🙂
[quote=”SadGeezer”][quote=”fluffy bunny”]ah the return of the technobabble. Wish I didn’t understand it so I could take the rip :([/quote]I’m getting lots of cool stuff!! Not only is there Kin Dza Dza, but I also have just managed to get the classic, ‘Fantastic Planet’ which is terrific! I hope to make all this available through my home server if possible.[/quote]
Oh, that’s a good one! Veeeeeery weeeeeeeeird! Love it. I picked that up on laserdisc about five or six years ago. It has english and french soundtracks, but it’s all subtitled no matter what (laserdisc technology). I want to get it on DVD soon.[i]Lightyears[/i] is another good animated sci-fi cult classic. I only bought that one on videotape.
[i]Fire & Ice[/i], anyone? I dubbed that, I think. I might have bought it. I can’t remember, it’s been a while.
‘Been working hard to get a fileserver up so that you guys can download the films direct to your PC.
I’ve re-registered sadgeezer.net and setup a server, so hopefully, when the DNS numbers propogate through the web, you should be able to get them.
I was told tomorrow (Tuesday).
Fingers crossed. 🙂
Ok, finally did it – looks like it works too! 🙂
[size=24]SADGEEZER.NET [/size]is finally here!
You can download the film directly to your PC from this new support website:
Just click: [url]http://www.sadgeezer.net[/url]
In future, this will be used to distribute other films etc. Eg. The next will be the first and second ‘Tripping the Rift’ animations and also the superb and weird ‘Fantastic Planet’.
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