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

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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