https://reactormag.com/sf-film-club-the-mystery-of-the-third-planet/
"In 1965, right in the middle of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and
the United States, Russian science fiction writer Kir Bulychev published
A
Girl Nothing Will Happen To, the first in what would become a long-running
series of children’s sci fi novels. The main character is a girl named Alisa
Seleznyova, who travels around the galaxy getting into all kinds of shenanigans
and adventures.
I don’t think any of the books have ever been translated into English, but they
seem like exactly the sort of books I would have loved as a kid, with a plucky
protagonist having wacky space adventures in a future where money is obsolete
and people work for the benefit of humankind rather than the accumulation of
wealth. If that kind of future sounds familiar, well, Gene Roddenberry would
launch
Star Trek in 1966. Both series are borne of an ideological yearning
for a better tomorrow, which was very common around the world in the ’60s, and
especially in science fiction.
Bulychev kept writing the Alisa Seleznyova series until his death in 2003,
publishing a new novel every year or two. The series was very popular and
spawned a number of adaptations. Among them was the live-action television
miniseries
Guest From the Future, which aired in 1985 and was a huge pop
culture hit of the sort that influenced style, fashion, music, and games, and
continues to be popular even now. Just last year there was a remake of that
same story as the feature film
One Hundred Years Ahead (2024).
Guest from the Future was the most successful and influential adaptation to
come out of the Alisa Seleznyova series, but it was not the first. The first
was the animated film
The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981), directed by
Roman Kachanov."
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