It came from space

Television series
German title	It came from space
Original title	Spadla z oblakov
Country of production	ČSSR
original language	Slovak
year	1978
Production ; company	ČST Bratislava, Gottwaldov [Zlin] film studios, Barrandov film laboratories
length	25 minutes
Episodes	13
genre	Children's and youth series
Theme music	Deti Vsemiru
Director	Radim Cvrček
script	Václav Pavel Borovička, František Viček
music	Harry Macourek, Prague Film Symphony Orchestra under Štepan Koníček
camera	Karel Kopecký
First broadcast	October 25, 1978
German-language ; first broadcast	July 3, 1982 (DDR1)
occupation
	see contributors

It came from space (original: Spadla z oblakov ) is a 13-part Czechoslovak children's series from 1978. It was broadcast in the 1980s on GDR television as well as on Südwest 3 , WDR and ORF .

action

Holidays are in the (fictional) Slovak town of Čabovce at the foot of the High Tatras . A couple of children who want to build a rocket discover a strange girl named Majka. The girl comes from the planet Gurun and wants to research life on earth and report about it in her home country. She has mysterious powers and can fly, walk over water, lift heavy things and duplicate objects. Majka has to recharge herself from time to time using radioactive stabilizers. When the townspeople also get to know the girl, she becomes a local celebrity and causes quite a stir. She goes on several adventures with her new friends, e.g. B. by flying to Prague with the self-made rocket. She also attracts greedy gangsters who try to kidnap her.

Episodes

This list shows the episodes with their original title and the German first broadcast date:

The apparition ("Zjavenie"), July 3, 1982
The floating girl (“Lietač”), July 10, 1982
The wedding dress (“Svadobné šaty”), July 17, 1982
The Raid ("Prepad"), July 24, 1982
The Banquet, July 31, 1982
Father does it (“Otec to zariadi”), August 7, 1982
The Secretary (“Tajomník”), August 14, 1982
The Enigmatic Stranger (“Záhadný cudzinec”), August 21, 1982
Operation Dandelion (“Operácia Púpava”), August 28, 1982
Excursion by rocket ("Výlet raketou"), September 4, 1982
The kidnapping ("Únos"), September 11, 1982
The shooting gallery ("Strelnica"), September 18, 1982
Farewell (“Rozlúčka”), September 25, 1982

Contributors

role	actor	speaker
Majka	Zuzana Pravňanská	Jeanine Aris
Karol	Matej Landl	René Berger
Katka	Svetlana Majbová	Julia Hoffmann
Slavo	Ľubor Čajka	Ulf Franke
Babka	Mária Hájková	Hanna Rieger
Valko	František Zvarík
Emil / Lunochod	Petr Scholtz	Eric Steinmann
Fero	Pavol Lazar	Wolfram Wiener
Igor	Roman Kudrna	Marek Friedrich
doctor	Václav Babka	Harry Küster
Kvašňák	Ján Kramár
Dedič	Karol Polák
Jurko	Michal Suchánek	Stefan Daenicke

Trivia

The television series is based relatively closely (except for the end) on the book »Spadla z nebe« by Václav Pavel Borovička. He wrote it eleven years before filming began in 1967. The book was published in several reprints, one of them in 2000 ( ISBN 80-7214-365-4 ).

Part of the filming took place in the Hotel FIS in Štrbské Pleso .

The complete series was released on two DVDs by Pidax in December 2014.

The German version of the MDR does not contain several minutes from the original version.