Restored Sci-Fi Sequence ‘The Guests’ Unveiled by WDR

German broadcasting group WDR is touring again in time with the newly restored 1983 cult sci-fi sequence “The Guests.”

The Czechoslovakian present is ready in 2484, a utopian future during which humanity is united underneath one frequent authorities, suggested in all choices by a pc referred to as “the central thinker,” and the place starvation, illness and conflict have been eradicated. When Earth finds itself abruptly threatened by an imminent collision with a comet, nevertheless, main tutorial Filip and three comrades journey again to 1984 in a contemporary-looking Lada Niva searching for a misplaced formulation that allows the shifting of planets, which might save Earth.

Created by Ota Hofman and Jindřich Polák, the group behind the basic Nineteen Seventies Czechoslovak kids’s sequence “Pan Tau,” “The Guests” was recognized domestically as “Návštěvníci,” “Die Besucher” in West Germany and “Expedition Adam 84” in East Germany.

The sequence additionally boasts costumes and props designed by Theodor Pištěk, who received an Oscar in 1985 for his costume design work on Miloš Forman’s “Amadeus.”

“The Guests” was co-produced by Ceskoslovenska Televize, West Germany’s WDR and BR, Swiss broadcaster SRG and France’s Revcom Tv.

WDR’s residence leisure division, Launch Firm, is releasing the sequence underneath the German title “Die Besucher” as a DVD and Blu-ray Collector’s Version on Nov. 4. Along with the whole sequence, digitally restored in HD, the collector’s version features a 30-minute bonus making-of movie and a trailer present of Czechoslovakian kids’s classics.

The Launch Firm distributes content material from WDR and different affiliate broadcasters of the ARD group, together with present new productions and archive titles going again practically 70 years.