Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s
Kin-dza-dza!
Scored from 35 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Vladimir Mashkov, a Moscow construction foreman, and Gedevan, a Georgian student carrying a violin, stop on a winter street for a barefoot stranger who claims to be an alien and holds out a small device. A press of its button drops them on Pluke, a desert planet in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy, where two locals, Uef and Bi, pick them up in a rusted flying tub called a pepelats. Plukanian life runs on matches as currency, a vocabulary shrunk almost entirely to the word 'ku', and a caste line between Chatlanians and Patsaks that a hand-held gadget settles on sight. The pair spend the film bartering for a way home. Georgiy Daneliya's two-part Soviet feature is a deadpan science-fiction satire shot in the Karakum desert.
Kin-dza-dza! is a 1986 comedy, drama and science-fiction film. It runs 2h 15m. It was made in the Soviet Union. It plays in Russian.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 35 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 38 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Kin-dza-dza! lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 35.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
