Аэлита. Королева Марса (Яков Протазанов, 1924) с музыкой Гали Чикис

Masterpiece of early cinematograph, first Soviet avant scifi movie Aelita: Queen of Mars directed by Yakov Protazanov in 1924. Based on Alexei Tolstoy s novel of the same name. Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi were cast in leading roles. Though the main focus of the story is the daily lives of a small group of people during the postwar Soviet Union, the enduring importance of the film comes from its early science fiction elements. It primarily tells about young engineer, Los (Russian: Лось, literally Moose), 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 performed and recorded in Berlin theatre April, 5, 2019