Georgiy DaneliyaCast
Stanislav Lyubshin 
Evgeniy Leonov Yuriy Yakovlev Levan Gabriadze 
Olga Mashnaya Irina Shmelyova
Credits
Written by: 
Revaz Gabriadze
Plot
A Moscow builder and a young student are transported by teleportation to a desert planet, where a decaying society with absurd rules lives, in a cult dystopian comedy.
Sinekatalog’s take
A cult, absurd Soviet science-fiction comedy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (15,689 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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