Aelita The Queen Of Mars (1924, Russia)

Aelita
USSR 1924, 111 mins, sci-fi/fantasy

Aelita (Аэли́та), is a 1924 Soviet silent science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov, based on Alexei Tolstoy's 1923 novel of the same name. It stars Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi in leading roles.

The story follows the daily lives of a small group of people during the post-civil war Soviet Russia, yet the film's importance comes from its sci-fi elements. An engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los is traveling to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders, with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

When released in the cinemas in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich played on the piano the music he created for the film.

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