Aelita: Queen of Mars

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Critics rate it 37 points higher than audiences do.

Synopsis

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

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Key crew

• Aleksei FajkoScreenplay
• Fyodor OtsepScreenplay
• Yakov ProtazanovDirector

Cast

• Yuliya SolntsevaAelita, Queen of Mars
• Igor IlyinskyKravtsov - amateur sleuth
• Nikolai TseretelliEvguieni Spiridinov
• Nikolai BatalovGusev, Red Army Soldier
• Vera OrlovaNurse Masha, Gusev's Wife
• Valentina KuindzhiNatasha, Los' Wife (as Vera Kuindzhi)
• Pavel PolViktor Ehrlich, Sugar Profiteer
• Konstantin EggertTuskub, Ruler of Mars
• Yuri ZavadskyGol, Radiant Energy Tower Guardian
• Aleksandra PeregonetsIhoshka, Aelita's Maidservant
• Iosif TolchanovMars Astronomer with Ihoshka
• N. TretyakovaYelena, Ehrlich's Wife

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