Guest from the Future
| Visitor from the Future | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Created by | Kir Bulychov |
| Written by |
Pavel Arsenov Kir Bulychov |
| Directed by | Pavel Arsenov |
| Starring |
Natalya Guseva Aleksei Fomkin Maryana Ionesyan Ilya Naumov |
| Theme music composer | Yevgeni Krylatov |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union |
| Original language(s) | Russian |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Gosteleradio USSR |
| Editor(s) | Tatyana Malyavina |
| Running time | 5 hours |
| Release | |
| Original network | First Program |
| Original release | March 25 – March 30, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Mystery of the Third Planet |
Visitor from the Future (Russian: Гостья из будущего, Gostya iz budushchevo) is a five-part Soviet television miniseries, made at Gorky Film Studio, first aired in 1985. It is based on the novel One Hundred Years Ahead (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд, Sto let tomu vperod) by Kir Bulychov.
The series starred Natalya Guseva as Alisa Selezneva, a girl from the future that travels to the present and Aleksei Fomkin as Kolya Gerasimov, a boy, who lives in the year 1984 and travels to the future: year 2084.
The series was a great success in the Soviet Union and is often reaired to this day.
Two schoolboys, Kolya and Fima, follow a mysterious strange lady to an abandoned house. When they enter the house, they find no trace of the stranger, but in the empty basement Kolya discovers a secret door that leads to a room with a technical device in it. Curious Kolya starts pressing some buttons and activates the device that "transfers" him to another place. We learn that this place is the institute for temporal research. Employees return from time travels to different periods and deliver artifacts that are inventoried by Werther, an android who holds a secret crush on the stranger whose name is Polina. Kolya sneaks around in the corridors but is ultimatively caught by Werther who starts inventorying Kolya as well, assuming that he was brought in by Polina. On this occasion Kolya learns that he has actually travelled through time into the year 2084. Werther ponders putting Kolya in the museum but then decides to send him back in time in order to cover up what he thinks to be Polina's mistake. Kolya convinces him to let him catch some sights of the future first. On his exploration, Kolya learns about teletransportation, humanoid aliens, antigravity and space flight. He also makes contact with a grandpa Pavel, a 130-year-old man who is intrigued by his 1980s school uniform.
Having reached the space port, Kolya unsuccessfully tries to get a ticket for an interplanetary flight. However, by joining a group of pupils who escort their project satellite to the launch, he manages to enter the transit area. There he witnesses how two service workers are stunned and then impersonated by two shape-shifting aliens that have emerged from a crate. Back in the waiting hall, Kolya meets grandpa Pavel again (who turns out to be Polina's future father-in-law) and tells about what he just saw, but the old man dismisses it as child's fantasies. Grandpa Pavel introduces Kolya to Prof. Seleznyov, director of the interplanetary zoo. Kolya spots the shape-shifters again. They lure grandpa Pavel away from the group, stun and impersonate him. The fake grandpa Pavel introduces the other shape-shifter to Prof. Seleznyov as a fellow scientist. The "scientist" shows conspicuos interest in a device called "myelophone", a mind-reader. Seleznyov mentions that the device is with his daughter Alisa in the interplanetary zoo. Kolya spots and awakens the real grandpa Pavel who tells him that the aliens are space pirates and that Alisa is in danger. He asks Kolya to find Alisa. In the zoo, the pirates in new disguise steal the myelophone from Alisa who tries to read animal minds. However, with the help of a man and his talking goat, Kolya can recover the device and temporarily escapes from the pirates in an air chase. He returns to the institute. While Kolya activates the time machine, Werther sacrifices himself trying to stop the pirates. Yet they use the machine to follow Kolya into the past. Meanwhile Alisa, chasing the pirates, has reached the institute and uses the time machine as well. In the 20th century, Kolya escapes while Alisa, not accustomed to 20th-century traffic, runs into a car. Kolya and Fima discuss what to do with the myelophone. The pirates install themselves in the abandoned house and wait.
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