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Rocky VI (1986 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Rocky VI' is a 1986 nine-minute black-and-white short parody of 'Rocky IV' by Finnish director Aki Kaurismki. The film stars Antti Juhani "Silu" Seppl (Leningrad Cowboys) as Rocky and Sakari Kuosmanen as Igor, his Soviet opponent. In the film, the two boxers fight at Tl 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 Finle Plze in Czech Republic and at Xntric at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in Spain. In 2007, the film was screened at Tampere Film Festival as part of a Kaurismki retrospective.
In the title, the letter VI does not actually represent number six, but an inverted IV, of 'Rocky IV', the specific film parodied. The fifth film in the Rocky series, 'Rocky V', was released almost four years after this parody. The sixth 'Rocky' film, 'Rocky Balboa', was released 20 years after 'Rocky VI'.
See also
* 'Ricky 1', a 1988 low budget, feature-length parody of 'Rocky'.
References
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