The Adventures of the Eleсtronic

The Adventures of Electronic (Russian: Приключения Электроника) is a 1979 Soviet children's science fiction TV miniseries, directed by Konstantin Bromberg.

The series' screenplay was adapted by Yevgeni Veltistov from his own two children's novels, Electronic - the boy from the suitcase (1964) and Ressy - an elusive friend (1971). The TV premiere was on 2 May 1980. The film achieved a cult status among the Soviet kids.

Plot
A robot named Electronic escapes from Professor Gromov's laboratory. The robot looks exactly like Sergey (Serezha) Syroezhkin, a boy from a magazine cover, who was chosen by Gromov as a model to construct Elektronic.

By coincidence, the double meets its prototype. 6-grader Serezha cunningly suggests that Elektronik should impersonate him - go to school instead of him and even live in his home. His plan works, as no one can tell the difference between them. Serezha's teachers delight in a very gifted pupil, who suddenly shows unbelievable talents in math, gymnastics, drawing and even singing. Sergey's parents do not suspect his trick and are glad of their pseudo-son's progress.

However, eventually the boy realizes that as the robot takes over "his" life, he may be out of business...

At the same time somewhere abroad, a gang of criminals operates. It is headed by a criminal authority known as Stump. He tells Yury, the gang’s most skillful member to find and kidnap Electronic. They want to organize the "crime of the century" with the use of his extraordinary abilities.

Cast

 * Yury Torsuyev as Sergey Syroyezhkin (dubbed by Irina Grishina, vocal by Elena Kamburova)
 * Vladimir Torsuyev as Elektronic (dubbed by Nadezhda Pod'yapol'skaya, vocal by Elena Shuyenkova)
 * Vasily Skromny as Makar Gusev
 * Oksana Alekseyeva as Maria Svetlova
 * Maksim Kalinin as Maksim Korol'kov
 * Dmitri Maksimov as Viktor Smirnov
 * Evgeny Livshits as Chizhikov (often mistakenly called Ryzhikov)
 * Valeriya Soluyan as Zoya Kukushkina
 * Oksana Fandera as an unnamed schoolgirl who gets Chizhikov's name wrong.
 * Vladimir Basov as Stump
 * Nikolai Karachentsov as Urrie
 * Nikolai Grinko as Prof. Viktor Ivanovich Gromov
 * Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina as Masha, Gromov's assistant
 * Yevgeny Vesnik as Taratar, the math teacher
 * Maya Bulgakova as School's headmistress
 * Nikolay Boyarsky as Rostik, the gymnastics teacher
 * Roza Makagonova as singing lessons teacher
 * Nataliya Vasazhenko as Sergey's mother
 * Yuri Chernov as Sergey's father
 * Lev Perfilov as Lyug, Stump's gangster
 * Gennadi Yalovich as Bree, Stump's gangster