Star Wars: Storm in the Glass

Star Wars: Storm in the Glass
Written by Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov
Release dates
 2004 (Russia)
Running time
 133 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

Star Wars: Storm in the Glass (Russian: Звёздные войны: Буря в стакане, refers to operation of Persian Gulf War "Desert Storm"), sometimes translated as Star Wars: Tempest in a Teapot, is a humorous 2004 English-to-Russian movie spoof of the 1999 science fantasy film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace by popular Russian movie translator Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov. In dubbing the film into Russian, Puchkov altered the plotline, character names, music, and certain visual effects to provide a different (and funny) experience to Russian-speaking audiences.

Synopsis

The operational conditions on the boundless open spaces of the Far-Northern Galaxy have rapidly become complicated. On secret planets, persons of unknown nationality (a reference to many Georgian-Armenian and Moldovan illegal immigrants in Russia) have set up manufacture of illegal alcohol on a galactic scale and are preparing an act of aggression against the peaceful planet Marabu.

To carry out a series of covert search missions the command sends two jedi - experienced workers of the Special Hare Krishna sect. As their first step in solving the problem, the jedi land on a space-station of the alcohol pirates to investigate, but they are ambushed and forced to battle their way out through various silly robots and kolobkis (Kolobok is a fictional Russian children's story character). By the time the heroes escape from the space-station and reach the capital with the help of a local Chukchi rapper, the angry bourgeois occupy the peaceful planet.

The jedi rescue the queen Zadolbala and escape on a stolen pepelats (an homage to a Russian film Kin-dza-dza!). During their escape, the spacecraft is damaged and heroically fixed in-flight by Vedroid ("Bucket Droid") model E2-E4, and are forced to make a landing on the planet Babooine (which carries many references to Iraq and the Second Gulf War). While visiting the store of a local Jewish Mossad trader, the jedi and the rapper meet a local boy, Anykey Skovorodker ("Skillet man") whose father was also rumored to be a jedi. To aid his father's coworkers, Anykey takes part in the Crazy Taxi Races, (a reference to a driving manner of many Russian share taxi drivers), during which he is nearly beaten by Grytsko Schumacher. On Babooin, the jedi also fight Javded (a strange man with red skin and small horns, who attacked the jedi after not being satisfied by them not wearing any hats).

After failing to sway the politicians of the galactic Duma (Russian Senate), the queen of Marabu develops a plan for operation "Storm in a Glass" (a play on "Operation Storm in the Desert"; also the Russian idiomatic equivalent to "Tempest in a Teapot"). Two divisions of underwater deer-herders, hidden in a fighter Anykey - everything sets up against the provisional government of bourgeois and their army of electronic dummies. During one of the fights, the jedi once again meet with the "red unmannered man" who attacks them once again (supposedly) for not wearing any hats. He is behalved and his lower half of the body (lower abdomen and legs) are identified, while it is a mystery to whom the other half belongs. Only in the "God's Spark" version of the film does it become clear who is Anykey's real father - it is Pogon, who admits to have "known" (commonly understood as "have/d sex with") Anykey's mother, and later openly explains that Anykey is his only son.

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