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

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

The Czechoslovakian present is about in 2484, a utopian future wherein humanity is united beneath one widespread authorities, suggested in all selections by a pc referred to as “the central thinker,” and the place starvation, illness and battle 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 seeking a misplaced formulation that allows the shifting of planets, which might save Earth.

Created by Ota Hofman and Jindřich Polák, the workforce behind the traditional Seventies Czechoslovak youngsters’s collection “Pan Tau,” “The Guests” was identified domestically as “Návštěvníci,” “Die Besucher” in West Germany and “Expedition Adam 84” in East Germany.

The collection 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 collection beneath the German title “Die Besucher” as a DVD and Blu-ray Collector’s Version on Nov. 4. Along with the whole collection, digitally restored in HD, the collector’s version features a 30-minute bonus making-of movie and a trailer present of Czechoslovakian youngsters’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.