A worthy Euro sci-fi epic with excellent sets and costumes. It's a 1963 Czech release bought by American International Pictures for TV with voice overs familiar to viewers of 60s European films. Only exteriors and miniatures suffer in the special effects category.
The film is nestled in time between two groundbreaking films, Forbidden Planet and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It tells compelling stories of segments of a large crew in a large interstellar ship in the year 2163. Each mini-story is reasonable for a long term crew in what it covers and the science it displays.
Ahead of its time in details, the crew was allowed 1 personal item; one chose a dog and another chose a large robot brought by a mathematician of all people. Not many sci-fi have a math guy on the crew.
Actors and actresses are older than US audiences prefer, but perform well without entering into stilted, over the top, soap opera-esque efforts of western European fare.
Sci-fi fans will appreciate plot twists and turns as the crew makes its way to the green planet of their objective. Another nice story from the author of Solaris just 3 years before the introduction of Star Trek on NBC.
The film is nestled in time between two groundbreaking films, Forbidden Planet and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It tells compelling stories of segments of a large crew in a large interstellar ship in the year 2163. Each mini-story is reasonable for a long term crew in what it covers and the science it displays.
Ahead of its time in details, the crew was allowed 1 personal item; one chose a dog and another chose a large robot brought by a mathematician of all people. Not many sci-fi have a math guy on the crew.
Actors and actresses are older than US audiences prefer, but perform well without entering into stilted, over the top, soap opera-esque efforts of western European fare.
Sci-fi fans will appreciate plot twists and turns as the crew makes its way to the green planet of their objective. Another nice story from the author of Solaris just 3 years before the introduction of Star Trek on NBC.