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Yakov Protazanov Aelita
Section
Eat the Rich
Genre
CONSTRUCTIVIST UTOPIA
Country
RU/UK/AU
YEAR
1924
Length
110 minutes
LANGUAGE
Russian
ov sub fr
Age
12
Let down by his wife and the Russian bourgeoisie, an engineer meets Queen Aelita on Mars and dreams of totalitarianism. The end of Soviet idealism embodied by postrevolutionary cinema.
