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 freeform adaptation of the sciencefiction 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 postwar 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.