| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (112 min.)): sound, black and white |
| Summary |
Aelita is a Socialist science fiction spectacle and in 1924 was the first big-budget movie from Soviet Russia. It is an adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow, who dreams of Aelita, the Queen of Mars, and builds a spaceship to take him to her. They fall in love, but Los soon finds himself embroiled in a proletarian uprising to establish a Martian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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Early Film |
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Film Studies |
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Movies |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924 |
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Based on the novel by Aleksey Nikolayevic Tolstoy |
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Restored version with new English intertitles and a new piano score by Alexander Rannie based upon themes by Sergei Prokofiev |
| Credits |
Photography, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, E. Shoneman ; set design, Sergei Kozlovsky, Alexandra Exter, Isaac Rabinovich, Victor Simo ; music, Alex Rannie |
| Performer |
Yulia Solntseva, Valentina Kuinzhi, Nikolai Batalov, Igor Ilinsky |
| Notes |
Silent film with English intertitles and musical accompaniment |
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Online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed March 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich, graf, 1883-1945 -- Film adaptations
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Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich, graf, 1883-1945 |
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Human-alien encounters -- Drama
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama
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Engineers -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Drama
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Martians -- Drama
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Streaming video.
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Internet videos.
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streaming video.
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Engineers
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Man-woman relationships
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Human-alien encounters
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Martians
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Outer space -- Drama
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Outer space
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Russia
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Russia (Federation) -- Moscow
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Drama
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Feature films
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Film adaptations
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Science fiction films
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Silent films
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Silent films.
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Science fiction films.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Films muets.
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Films de science-fiction.
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Films de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Protazanov, I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich, 1881-1945, film director.
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Ot︠s︡ep, Fedor Aleksandrovich, 1895-1949, screenwriter.
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Faito, Alexiei, screenwriter
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Kozlovsky, Sergei
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Exter, Alexandra.
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Rabinovich, Isaak Moiseevich, 1894-1961 new subfield
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Simo, Victor
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Solnt︠s︡eva, I︠U︡. I. (I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Ippolitovna), actor.
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Kuinzhi, Valentina, actor
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Batalov, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, 1899-1937, actor.
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Ilʹinskiĭ, Igorʹ, 1901-1987, actor.
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Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich, graf, 1883-1945.
Aėlita
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Mezhrabpom-Rusʹ (Firm), production company.
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Flicker Alley (Firm), film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
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