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Aelita, also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a 1924 Soviet silent science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov and produced at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy's 1923 novel of the same name. Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi were cast in leading roles.
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The Soviet Union was the first country to put an artificial object in space and the first country to put a man in space. So, it isn't that surprising that it was also the country where some of those achievements were symbolically predicted by one of the earliest and most important works of science fiction cinema. That was *Aelita*, the 1924 silent film directed by Yakov Protazanov. The film is loosely based on the e…More
