Gostya iz budushchego

Special thanks and tribute to memory of outstanding book,100 years ahead, and talent of Kir Bulychev .

In traditions of old fashioned Soviet style art, these serial projecting a lot of morale. It teaches spectators how to hold on to real friendship and love, embedding the story into adventure and sci fi of time travelling.

I recommend to watch this serial without hesitation. Of course for everyone who understands and enjoys old soviet cinematograph.

Curious fact. Alisa Selezneva, in one of the scenes, was making predictions for her school mates. They were all predicted to become celebrities or at least some success. But in real life most of those young actors became simple taxi drivers or small shop owners.

However the elder part of the crew managed to stay in actors profession. Evgeniy Gerasimov, robot Verter, made good career as actor.

Guest from the Future tells a fascinating story of time travel, friendship, battle of good and evil -- all with a small budget, child actors, and few special effects. Something for Spielberg and Lucas to learn from. ;) A sixth-grader Kolya "Nick" Gerasimov finds a time machine in the basement of a decrepit building and travels 100 years into the future. He discovers a near-perfect, utopian society where robots play guitars and write poetry, everyone is kind to each other and people enjoy everything technology has to offer. Alice is the daughter of a prominent scientist who invented a device called Mielophone that allows to read minds of humans and animals. The device can be put to both good and bad use, depending on whose hands it falls into. When two evil space pirates from Saturn who want to rule the universe attempt to steal Mielophone, it falls into the hands of 20th century school boy Nick. With the pirates hot on his tracks, he travels back to his time, followed by the pirates, and Alice. Chaos, confusion and funny situations follow as the luckless pirates try to blend in with the earthlings. Alice enrolls in the same school Nick goes to and demonstrates superhuman abilities in PE class. The catch is, Alice doesn't know what Nick looks like, while the pirates do. Also, the pirates are able to change their appearance and turn literally into anyone. (Hmm, I wonder if this is where James Cameron got the idea for Terminator...) Who gets to Nick -- and Mielophone -- first? Excellent plot, non-stop adventures, and great soundtrack. I wish Hollywood made kid movies like this one...

It is requem for broken dreams. If you watch this film yo can undersand ideas and goals of USSR then maybe you will become a little ashamed...

Definitely you have had to live in 80s USSR to accept this series on mental and emotional levels. If you were not that lucky you can have a look how Soviets and their imaginable future looked. With sences, feeling, emotions and kindness in the front.

Even though dated by today's standards, "Guests of the Future" tends to be a very memorable children's show. I've always consitered Pavel Arsenov to be Russia's "Leiji Matsumoto".

Plot revolves around 11 year old Kolya Gerasimov who discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. Then he is allowed to look around, everything seems to be different! Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a young girl who could talk to animals and machinery. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, however, they know nothing about him.

Very deep plot, nice soundtrack and rather thought provoking, consitiering that the audience that is aimed for is children/pre-teen audience. It was availiable for a while (In Russian and Mandarin with Chinese subtitles), but I think they should re-release it again one day!