''Rocky VI'' is a 1986

black-and-white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, ...

short musical parody of ''

Rocky IV ''Rocky IV'' is a 1985 American sports drama film starring, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. The film is the sequel to '' Rocky III'' (1982) and the fourth installment in the ''Rocky'' franchise. It also stars Talia Shire, Burt You ...

'' by Finnish director

Aki Kaurismäki Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning '' Drifting Clouds'' (1996), '' The Man Without a Past'' (2002), ''Le Havre'' (2011), '' The Other Side of Hope'' (201 ...

. The film stars Antti Juhani "Silu" Seppälä (

Leningrad Cowboys The Leningrad Cowboys were a Finnish rock band who perform rock and roll covers of other songs. They had exaggerated pompadour hairstyles and wore long, pointy shoes. They often worked with the Russian military band the Alexandrov Ensemble. ...

) as Rocky and

Sakari Kuosmanen Sakari Jyrki Kuosmanen (born 6 September 1956) is a Finnish singer and actor, born in Helsinki. He has recorded several solo albums and has also done work with Sleepy Sleepers and Leningrad Cowboys. He appeared as himself on the Finnish televis ...

as Igor, his Soviet opponent, and functions as a music video for the song of the same name by the

. In the film, the two boxers fight at

Töölö Sports Hall Töölö Sports Hall (, ) is a sports venue located in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Aarne Hytönen and Risto-Veikko Luukkonen and built in 1935 as Messuhalli (Exhibition Hall). It is located near the Olympic St ...

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

. The much bigger Igor quickly knocks out Rocky and wins the match. ''Rocky VI'' is still shown at many

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent ...

s. In 2004, the film was screened at Finále Plzeň in the

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and at Xèntric at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in

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. In 2007, the film was screened at the

Tampere Film Festival The Tampere Film Festival () is a short film festival held every March, mostly at the Finnkino Plevna movie theatre, in Tampere, Finland. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the short film festivals in Oberhau ...

as part of a Kaurismäki retrospective. In the title, the letter VI does not actually represent number six, but an inverted IV, of ''

'', the specific film parodied.

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* 1986 films Films directed by Aki Kaurismäki 1980s parody films 1986 short films Rocky (franchise) 1980s sports films 1986 comedy films English-language Finnish films Finnish black-and-white films Finnish musical comedy films Finnish short films Finnish sports films 1980s Finnish films {{short-film-stub