The best robots of the USSR Of all the issues of the almanac 'This fantastic world' this one has gained the most popularity. Probably it was in it that many things successfully came together: the plot, the production, the constellation of actors.
The issue consists of three novels, united by a single theme - robots.
The events of the first novel takes place in our time, it is shot in an old-fashioned style and in general is not fiction, rather it is a detective. Just the main characters, due to their age, somewhat lagged behind the technical progress, the victims, which, in combination with malicious intent, became.
The second novel, shot on the brilliant Isaac Asimov and is one of the most successful, long before the large-scale Hollywood, adaptations of the author.
The time of action here is a very distant future. And the main plot collision is a psychological dilemma, the idea of which could come to mind only the genius of Asimov.
Separately, it is worth noting the game of Natalia Nazarova (personally, Susan Calvin only seems to me) and an interesting visual solution to the image of the robot (Boris Plotnikov), Azimov had it (robot) was metal, heavy, with square forms. It's more of an android here.
The finale is a bit different than the one in the story.
The third novel takes place in an even more distant future. There are more robots in the population than people. The events of the novel are very sad, if not hopeless, at least for people. Nevertheless, this part is the most entertaining, and the enchanting phenomenon of Yuri Bogatyrev, makes it even more successful.
It is interesting that the fashion of the 80s, in the view of many contemporaries, looked like the fashion of the future In the film, such costumes were designed by Vyacheslav Zaitsev, who starred in the episode of the third novel.
In Soviet times, when high-quality science fiction films were in short supply, this seemed like a revelation.
8 out of 10