12 facts about the favorite children's fiction "Guest from the Future"

For more than 35 years, the five-part film "Guest from the Future" has been one of the important elements of nostalgia for Soviet childhood. This movie immediately became a hit. Of course, because 4 years before the cartoon "The Secret of the third Planet" was released, because the children were already waiting for the sequel, and it came out in the form of a film. The author of both scenarios is Kir Bulychev and his book about the girl Alice. Today we will share interesting facts about the film "Guest from the future".

The selection of actors for the roles of children's characters lasted about six months, especially many candidates were for the main role of Alice Selezneva. One of them was Natalia Shanaeva, but she was taken on the role of one of Lena Dombazova's schoolgirls. But Natalia Guseva, who eventually played Alice, came to the casting with a friend. But when director Pavel Arsenov saw her look, he realized that it was she who should be in the main role.

Alyosha Fomkin, who played Kolya Gerasimov, was noticed earlier in "Yeralash", and the rest of the boys were immediately tried for the role of Kolya's friend Fima Korolev, and only then were distributed to other roles

Interestingly, the director did not want the child actors to miss school a lot, so he set a short shooting day for them: from 10 to 15, so they did not have much time to make friends

Natasha Guseva (Alice) was modest and shy in life, because the boys were not particularly interested in her, although after the release of "Guest" the girl became very popular

In the film, Alice had superpowers in English and physical education, but in reality, Guseva had problems with this in her studies. Therefore, when she spoke in English, she was voiced by an Englishwoman, and when the scene with the jump over the fence was filmed, a gymnast did it for her

But the guys had to voice themselves – the director insisted on this, although it was difficult for them to get into the words that they said on the screen

Tatiana Bozhok played Kolya Gerasimov's mother, although she was only 26, and the boy was 14

The alien speech that sounds in the scene of Alice's father's conversation with the Rat is the phrase "Dust flies across the field from the trampling of hooves"played backwards

The lack of computer graphics was compensated by creativity and resourcefulness. Here the building of the future was made in the form of a layout measuring about 50 cm and simply hung it on a fishing line in front of the screen, creating a perspective, as if the house was just in the background

In the scene where the girls Alice and Yulia change into a tall man, Natasha Guseva is actually being held on the shoulders by Alyosha Fomkin

The same myelophone was made from cut prisms of a camera, and its sound is an accelerated melody of Tchaikovsky's first concert. Now the device is kept by the widow of the director Elena Arsenova

Although the film was already stretched for as many as 5 episodes, there are still many scenes that were not included in the final version. For example, how Kolya distracts the pirates with cherry ice cream: they start eating dessert, and in the meantime he runs away.

By the way, at the beginning of this year, the producer of the film "Invasion" Mikhail Vrubel said that he was going to make a remake of "Guest from the Future", because today computer technologies open up much more opportunities for the adaptation of such legendary fiction.