Rocky VI (1986 film)

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Rocky VI is a 1986 nine-minute black-and-white short 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. In the film, the two boxers fight at Töölön kisahalli 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 Czech Republic and at Xèntric at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in Spain. In 2007, the film was screened at Tampere Film Festival as part of a Kaurismäki retrospective.

Trivia

• In the title, the letters VI doesn't actually represent number six, but a inverted IV, of Rocky IV, the specific film parodied, because the fifth movie of the Rocky series, Rocky V, was released almost four years after this parody.

References

External links

• Rocky VI at the All Movie Guide

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