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On March 25, 1985, the five-part children’s science fiction television film “Guest from the Future” by Pavel Arsenov, filmed at the Gorky Film Studio, was released on Soviet screens.
The director based this mini-series on the story “One Hundred Years Ago” – one of the parts of the series that Kir Bulychev began writing back in 1965 for his daughter Alisa. Pavel Arsenov considered the fantasy genre to be very promising, he was inspired by Richard Viktorov’s works “Through Thorns to the Stars” and “Moscow – Cassiopeia”. And the idea to film this particular book by Kir Bulychev came to the director during a creative meeting with children. When asked which work they would advise him to make a film based on, most named “One Hundred Years Ago”. The writer co-authored the script for “Guest from the Future”, filming began in 1983 and ended in August 1984.
According to the plot, Moscow schoolchildren find a time machine in the basement of an old house. Sixth-grader Kolya Gerasimov, who just went to the store for kefir, accidentally ends up in 2084. The robot Werther, whom he meets, allows him to walk around Moscow for a while and look at the future. Kolya meets Alisa Selezneva, the daughter of a professor and director of the space zoo “CosmoZoo”. The girl has a myelophone – a unique device designed to read thoughts, with the help of which she studies the behavior of animals. However, the myelophone is also of interest to space pirates – Rat and Veselchak U, who want to become the rulers of the Universe. Kolya and Alisa are in for an exciting adventure.
Casting and filming
More than a hundred young actresses applied for the role of Alisa Selezneva, including Natalya Shanaeva, who played Lena Dombazova in the film. In the end, the role went to Natalya Guseva and brought her enormous popularity – letters from fans came from outside the Soviet Union. At the time of the start of filming, she was 11 years old. However, Natalya did not dream of a professional acting career – after finishing school, she entered the Moscow State Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, became a biotechnologist and worked at the N.F. Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
According to the recollections of actor Semyon Buzgan (Kolya Sadovsky), almost all the boys who starred in the film read an excerpt from the role of Fima Korolev at the first audition – based on the results of this “exam”, Pavel Arsenov determined whether the candidate had the ability to act. Sixth-grader Alyosha Fomkin, who already had acting experience in several stories of the film magazine “Yeralash”, was chosen for the role of Kolya Gerasimov.
For adult roles, Pavel Arsenov invited many talented actors: Vyacheslav Nevinny and Mikhail Kononov became space pirates, Evgeny Gerasimov played the robot Werther, Yuri Grigoriev played Professor Seleznev, Igor Yasulovich played the employee of “CosmoZoo” Electron Ivanovich. Georgy Burkov, Valentina Talyzina, Lyudmila Arinina, Natalya Varley and other famous actors also starred in the film. Several episodic roles were played by one of the film’s cameramen, Alexander Lysykh, and his characters were voiced by Mikhail Kokshenov.
The budget allocated for the creation of the impressive film was quite modest, so Pavel Arsenov, production designer Olga Kravchena, costume designer Valentina Olonovskaya and the special effects team had to use their imagination and ingenuity to achieve realism of what was happening on the screen. For example, the Moscow Institute of Time is just a model suspended at a height of more than 50 meters. For the flying flips, miniature copies with tiny figures inside were used – they were suspended from a rotating crane with a boom and filmed in the background, as if the actors were flying high in the sky. And the famous myelophone is actually a glass prism for a camera.
Filming, in addition to the Gorky Film Studio, took place, of course, in various places in Moscow. For example, the building of the Institute of Time and “CosmoZoo” were filmed in the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after N.V. Tsitsin, school scenes – in the building of school No. 20 (now No. 1239) on Vspolny Lane, since the characters study there. Also in the film you can see Prechistenka, Gogolevsky Boulevard, Kalinina Avenue (now Novy Arbat), the area around Samotechnaya Street, where Kolya Gerasimov discovered a time machine, Cosmonauts Alley and many other familiar places.
The music for the film was written by composer Yevgeny Krylatov, whose song “Beautiful Far Away” with lyrics by Yuri Entin became a hit after the film’s release. The first screening took place at the Gorky Film Studio in October 1984. The television premiere of “Guest from the Future” took place from March 25 to 29, 1985, during the spring school holidays, and was a huge success. Later, the magazine “World of Fantasy” included “Guest from the Future” in the list of the best screen adaptations and called the film a cult film, despite some limitations of the film crew in technical means.
Two years later, in 1987, Pavel Arsenov made the film “The Purple Ball” based on the story of the same name by Kir Bulychev, telling about the new adventures of Alisa Selezneva.
Gorky Film Studio is one of the largest in Russia, the oldest film studio in Moscow. More than a thousand films have been released here, including “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, “Officers”, “Morozko”, “…The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”, “Carnival”, “You Never Dreamed…”, “Three Plus Two” and many others. The film studio is one of the main sites of a large-scale Moscow film cluster, which unites infrastructure facilities, services and services for filmmakers. Its development is carried out by the Moscow Government as part of Sergei Sobyanin’s project “Moscow – City of Cinema”. The structure of the film cluster also includes the Moskino cinema chain, a film factory, a film park, a film commission and the Moskino film platform.
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