One of the earliest full-length films about space travel, presented with new live score by beatboxer Tom Thum.
Aelita: Queen of Mars envisions life on Mars through elaborate Soviet-era set design and bold futurist costumes that inspired the likes of Mike Hodges’s Flash Gordon 1980 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis 1927. This incredible silent film centres on a distinctly human drama of power and revolt while boasting a galactic romance and a funky sci-fi vision of the future.
Details
| Year: | 1924 |
| Classification: | All ages |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | Silent with English intertitles |
| Director: | Yakov Protazanov |
| Cast: | Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky |
| Script: | Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep (based on the novel by Alexei Tolstoy) |
| Program strand: | Features |
| Rights: | National Film and Sound Archive, Australia. |