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• Actors: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolai Batalov, Vera Orlova (II)
• Directors: Yakov Protazanov
• Format: Black & White, Silent, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kino Video
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000006PE3
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,414 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beyond the beyond, August 29, 1999

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Michael B. Sterling (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aelita - Queen of Mars [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's a work of totally visionary science fiction from an utterly vanished revolutionary Soviet Constructivist world. Which is weirder: royal life on Mars, or the fact that this film somehow got produced and distributed?

The sets and costumes are utterly mindboggling. This is my favorite work of science fiction cinema.

Bruce Sterling

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating look at an era and style, February 21, 2004

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This review is from: Aelita - Queen of Mars (DVD)

Surprisingly watchable, for a silent film, and very well preserved. The Constructivist sets and costumes are amazing, a revolutionary art style before the later supression of expression and innovation in the Soviet Union (this film was later banned by Stalinist critics). Even the images of life on Earth, in the early days of that nation, are quite interesting.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was a hot stuff in its historical period!, April 9, 2007

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aelita - Queen of Mars (DVD)

After leaving the hall of cinema, I asked to myself how could this movie to surmount the ideological prejudices and brutal censure, if presumably didn't count with a kind overlook by part of adverse enemies of the regime. Because the whole contain of the underneath message was terribly mordacious.

An engineer decides to design a spaceship to try to find in Mars the woman of his dreams. Until now everything s works; but when he arrives to the red planet he finds a Proletarian upraising. This film not only inspired the genial mind of Fritz Lang but since its release has been an portentous document in the history of cinema.

This smart collection of elements: danger, humor and love were the primordial factors that could stand the inquisitive scrutiny of the Big Russian Brother; the iron fist ruler, and certainly the most bloody tyrant in the XX Century.