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Aelita - Queen of Mars (1924)
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
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 orchestral score. 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]
Genre: Foreign Films
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...the extravagant sets and costumes represent the apogee of Russian constructivist screen design.
While Aelita doesn't surpass Fritz Lang's 1926 classic Metropolis, it is a major early achievement in futuristic cinema...


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