Voyage to the End of the Universe

It's the second half of the 22nd century and the spaceship Ikaria XB 1 is on its way to Alpha Centauri to investigate alien life forms. Far from the solar system, its crew, made up of scientists from various disciplines, is exposed to unknown, unimaginable threats. But it also brings with it many of its everyday human concerns and joys. Kališ's black-and-white images in widescreen format, Liška's innovative electronic music and convincing sets and costumes create a stylistically refined fictional world of the far future. The civilian performances of the Czech acting elite give it an unexpected naturalness and psychological dimension. In writing the script, the authors were loosely inspired by Stanisław Lem's novel "The Magellanic Cloud". It is also worth mentioning that they have avoided the simplistic and era-populistic politicisation to which the science fiction genre was often subject. They did not pit two competing systems against each other, no imaginary East and West, but the hope for a better, more morally advanced humanity against the "bunch" of the 20th century that left nothing but destruction in its wake.