AelitaBased on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy, this futuristic film is a significant work of post-Civil War popular cinema born under Lenin's New Economic Policy.
Los, an engineer disillusioned with domestic life, flies to Mars in order to aid a proletarian revolt against the dictatorial King Tuskub, and begins a love affair with Aelita, Queen of Mars.
The film is particularly memorable for its striking constructivist sets and costumes designed by Alexandra Ekster and Issak Rabinovich.
