This is a great story of a contact with a human boy raised by an alien race on their home planet since he was a baby after a ship from Earth had crashed there and the attempts of the crew of another spaceship from Earth arriving there some years later to establish contact with that civilisation through the boy. It is based on Strugatsky's sci-fi novel "Space Mowgly".
Don't expect much from this television play in terms of visual effects and set designs. It is very low budget soviet stage TV show even by the standards of the 80's, and depends entirely on story, dialogues and actors' play, which I must say is very good, and so is directing.
So it does leave the viewer used to the visual quality of modern films but also appreciating good story and solid acting with somewhat mixed feelings.
I'm not sure if this film can be found with English translation. But there is a Czech version based on the same novel - a TV-movie called Unexpected Encounters (original name - Nesmluvená setkání) made in 1995. That can be found with English subtitles.
Don't expect much from this television play in terms of visual effects and set designs. It is very low budget soviet stage TV show even by the standards of the 80's, and depends entirely on story, dialogues and actors' play, which I must say is very good, and so is directing.
So it does leave the viewer used to the visual quality of modern films but also appreciating good story and solid acting with somewhat mixed feelings.
I'm not sure if this film can be found with English translation. But there is a Czech version based on the same novel - a TV-movie called Unexpected Encounters (original name - Nesmluvená setkání) made in 1995. That can be found with English subtitles.
