Rocky VI (1986)
- Original title
- Rock'y VI
- Directed by
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Genre
- parody film, boxing film
- Country
- Finland
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 88 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a short black and white musical parody of Rocky IV. A Finnish boxer named Rocky fights a much bigger Soviet opponent named Igor in Helsinki. Igor knocks Rocky out quickly and the music video plays.
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What happens
Rocky VI is a 1986 black-and-white short musical parody of Rocky IV by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Antti Juhani "Silu" Seppälä (Leningrad Cowboys) as Rocky and Sakari Kuosmanen as Igor, his Soviet opponent, and functions as a music video for the song of the same name by the Leningrad Cowboys. In the film, the two boxers fight at Töölö Sports Hall in Helsinki. The much bigger Igor quickly knocks out Rocky and wins the match. Rocky VI is still shown at many film festivals. In 2004, the film was screened at Finále Plzeň in the Czech Republic and at Xèntric at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in Spain. In 2007, the film was screened at the Tampere Film Festival as part of a Kaurismäki retrospective. In the title, the letters VI do not actually represent number six, but a reversed IV, of Rocky IV, the specific film parodied. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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