Aelita
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Russia's first big budget science fiction spectacular. "Aelita, the Queen of Mars" is a fantastic adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow who dreams of Aelita 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! (official distributor synopsis)
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It's quite political at times, but considering it was created at a time when the revolution was still quite lively and all those ideas hadn't been degenerated by Stalin, it holds weight. And I must say, some scenes really gave me chills, not because I was scared of their ideological message, but because they resonated quite powerfully. What's undoubtedly the best aspect of the film is its visuals, especially the costumes; they're beautiful and could actually work in modern sci-fi.
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