Aelita׃ Queen of Mars. USSR, 1924 year. The first Soviet science fiction film

Aelita׃ Queen of Mars. USSR, 1924 year. The first Soviet science fiction film #Aelita #QueenMars #Aelita1924 “Aelita“ is a classic Soviet silent feature film by Yakov Protazanov, a free-form adaptation of the science-fiction novel of the same name by . Though the main focus of the story is the daily lives of a small group of people during the post-war Soviet Union, the enduring importance of the film comes from its early science fiction elements. It primarily tells of a young man Los, 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.