>>This was one of the funniest and oddly also one of the most touching movies I've seen in a long time. It was not as black and white as I would have thought when I started watching it -- as it turned out, the West was no paradise, either.
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>I was about to pop it into my Netflix queue, only to discover they don't have it. Any idea why?

Because Netflix is limited to what was distributed here. For anything else... the jury of the peers. Just the other night I watched a production of a certain youngster F F Coppola... "Battle beyond the Sun" (online). And then I just had to find the original, "Nebo zovyot" (The sky is calling). I think maybe once in the next million years Netflix would carry the original along with the butchered copy (this wasn't even a remake). Until then...

And even if they would carry it, you'd never find it listed under SF. It'd be under "foreign".