Das Ende der Ewigkeit

This is a very authentic Soviet TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's novel "The End of Eternity", which in turn is one of the most impressive stories about time travel I read.

I remember watching it in East German TV in the mid 80's. It was in form of a short series and wasn't synchronized in German, only with subtitles, but nevertheless captivating.

Some years later I discovered the book by Asimov and noticed, that I know its story already...

There weren't so many TV and movie adaptations of science fiction stories produced in Eastern Europe before 1990, and this is definitely one of the best.

Few movies do honor to the books, and this one is no exception, it distorts the story to adapt it to something totally different, at times it is very dense, and tries to fill with images and music unintelligible things. The effects technology of the time doesn't help much. Essential parts of the story were changed and details of technicism that confuse or remain as a nonsense, missing dialogues and details, to maintain the plot and the suspense of the real dilemma posed by Asimov. Many of the scenes lost the essence of conveying the main idea, a yawn. I hope that someday they reverse it into something better.