The Adventures of Elektronik: Soviet Sci-Fi with a Human Face

Going down the rabbit hole.

The other day, I decided to take a peek at the most famous children’s film of my childhood. When I was a kid, whenever this film was shown on TV, every girl in my building stopped whatever she were doing, and we all went to the apartment of that one girl whose parents had a color TV. And then the entire crowd sat in front of the screen, mesmerized.

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