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Aelita - Queen of Mars (1924)

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Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A Moscow engineer designs a spaceship and travels to Mars to meet the woman who haunts his dreams. He succeeds, but finds himself embroiled in a Martian proletarian uprising. Silent film with... A Moscow engineer designs a spaceship and travels to Mars to meet the woman who haunts his dreams. He succeeds, but finds himself embroiled in a Martian proletarian uprising. Silent film with orchestral score. [More]

Director: Yakov Protazanov

Director: Yakov Protazanov

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Jul 20, 1999

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  • Russia's first big budget science fiction spectacular. "Aelita, the Queen of Mars" is a fantastic adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow who dreams of Aelita and builds a spaceship to take him to her. They fall in love, but Los soon finds himself embroiled in a proletarian uprising to establish a Martian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!
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    ...the extravagant sets and costumes represent the apogee of Russian constructivist screen design.

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    While Aelita doesn't surpass Fritz Lang's 1926 classic Metropolis, it is a major early achievement in futuristic cinema...

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