{"id":9621,"date":"2012-09-26T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2012-10-03T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T05:14:17","slug":"aelita-queen-of-mars-first-russian-science-fiction-film-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2012\/09\/26\/aelita-queen-of-mars-first-russian-science-fiction-film-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"Aelita Queen of Mars: First Russian Science Fiction Film 1924"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"topimage\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aelita2\" width=\"580\" height=\"379\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita2-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is regarded as being the first Soviet science fiction film. Made in 1924, it&#8217;s an operatic scenario involving a mysterious radio signal sent toward earth, a scientist who builds a spaceship to get to the red planet only to find a totalitarian state, and a dictator&#8217;s daughter who wants to lead a revolution. There&#8217;s even a hammer and sickle to go along with the establishment of a socialist republic on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The film combines outlandish stage scenery representing Mars with the gritty streets and factories of Moscow. There&#8217;s some really beautiful photography and truly absurd costumes throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Directed By Yakov Protozoan<br \/>\nWritten By Aleksei Fajko and Fyodor Otsep<br \/>\nBased On A Play By Aleksei Tolstoy<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XtA9xnf3To?list=PL23130ABCEDFF73C6&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All six parts of the film can be seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL23130ABCEDFF73C6\">this YouTube playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aelita3\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita3.jpg 580w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aelita3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is regarded as being the first Soviet science fiction film. Made in 1924, it&#8217;s an operatic scenario involving a mysterious radio signal sent toward earth, a scientist who builds a spaceship to get to the red planet only to find a totalitarian state, and a dictator&#8217;s daughter who wants to lead a revolution. There&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1476,114,81,1639],"tags":[155,144,1590],"class_list":["post-9621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1920s","category-film","category-science-fiction","category-silent-film-2","tag-mars","tag-sci-fi","tag-soviet-union"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9819,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions\/9819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}