Aelita: Queen of Mars
Fri 25 Feb 2011 6.30pm
Cinema £10 (£8)
Director: Yakov Protazanov
Country: Russia
Cast: Yuliya Solntsevea, Igor Ilyinsky and Nikolai Tsereteli
Year of Release: 1924
Certificate: U
Length of film: 112mins
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CloseSocialist science-fiction spectacular, Aelita was the first big-budget Soviet movie, intended as ideologically-correct mass entertainment to rival Hollywood.
The story follows an engineer named Los who leads a construction effort to build a spaceship. The movie’s influence is hard to overestimate: its incredible set design would soon be echoed by the likes of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Flash Gordon.
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There will be a post screening discussion.
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