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In fact, Los is daydreaming constantly about Mars, imagining a society with a king and queen, Tuksub and Aelita, and a ruling class that lords it over poor workers that are kept in cold storage when they aren't needed. Los, whose marriage is deteriorating, imagines that Aelita looks at Earth from her Martian telescope, sees him, and is attracted to him. He also visualizes Aelita as looking just like his wife. Finally jealousy causes Los to snap, and when he catches his wife in a compromising position with Erlich, he shoots his wife to death. He hops on his rocket ship and flees to Mars, only to find that Aelita is real, and that she wants him.
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It is 1921, as [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober the Russian Civil War]] is winding down. All the radio stations in the world receive a bizarre message from space, "Anta Odeli Uta." No one knows what to make of it. One of the people who hears the message is Los, a Moscow radio station operator. Los is obsessed with UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and is building a rocket ship to go there, along with his partner, Spiridnov. Meanwhile, in more earthly concerns, a minor Soviet bureaucrat named Erlich has weaseled his way into receiving Los's apartment. Erlich starts paying entirely too much attention to Los's pretty wife, Natasha, who starts responding to the attention due to Los being too distracted by his work. When he isn't hitting on married women, Erlich is stealing rationed goods and selling them on the black market.
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It is 1921, as [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober the Russian Civil War]] is winding down. All the radio stations in the world receive a bizarre message from space, "Anta Odeli Uta." No one knows what to make of it. One of the people who hears the message is Los, a Moscow radio station operator. Los is obsessed with UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and is building a rocket ship to go there, along with his partner, Spiridnov.
Meanwhile, in more earthly concerns, a minor Soviet bureaucrat named Erlich has weaseled his way into receiving Los's apartment. Erlich starts paying entirely too much attention to Los's pretty wife, Natasha, who starts responding to the attention due to Los being too distracted by his work. When he isn't hitting on married women, Erlich is stealing rationed goods and selling them on the black market.
Meanwhile, in more earthly concerns, a minor Soviet bureaucrat named Erlich has weaseled his way into receiving Los's apartment. Erlich starts paying entirely too much attention to Los's pretty wife, Natasha, who starts responding to the attention due to Los being too distracted by his work. When he isn't hitting on married women, Erlich is stealing rationed goods and selling them on the black market.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mars women know how to dress.]]
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* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: One of the most striking things about the film is the bizarre futuristic clothing the Martians wear. The handmaiden that Gusev takes a shine to on Mars has some sort of bar cage on the outside of her dress that folds out when she sits down.
* InterplanetaryVoyage: That's one rickety, low-tech rocket.
* InterplanetaryVoyage: That's one rickety, low-tech rocket.
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* MightyWhitey: An interspace version, as two Russians land on Mars and wind up inspiring the oppressed slaves to rise up and overthrow their masters, like how the Russians did in 1917!
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* DieselPunk: A very 1920s-looking rocket taking three men to Mars.
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* HemisphereBias: What do we see on Earth as Los's ship sails away? Eurasia, with Russia centered, of course.
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* TechnicolorScience: Even in a black and white movie! In one scene Los adds a chemical to another chemical in a beaker and it changes color in a satisfying manner.
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* TechnicolorScience: Even in a black and white movie! In one scene Los adds a chemical to another chemical in a beaker and it changes color in a satisfying manner.manner.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Aelita embraces Los and says "Touch my lips with yours, like you do it on Earth."
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Aelita embraces Los and says "Touch my lips with yours, like you do it on Earth."
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* HumanAliens: Oddly, the dominant life form on Mars looks ''exactly'' like ''Homo sapiens''.
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* CorruptBureaucrat: Erlich is some kind of minor bureaucrat who steals the sugar he's supposed to be rationing out and sells it on the black market.
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Sort of--Aelita isn't green, and in fact looks just like Natasha with a different wig. But otherwise the trope is played straight as Aelita wears {{Stripperific}} outfits, falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Los, and wants him to teach her what kissing is.
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* DoNotAdjustYourSet: It pre-dates television! Radio stations all over the world receive a strange, cryptic signal.
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''Aelita'', aka ''Aelita, Queen of Mars'', is a 1924 film from the Soviet Union, directed by Yakov Protazanov.
It is 1921, as [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober the Russian Civil War]] is winding down. All the radio stations in the world receive a bizarre message from space, "Anta Odeli Uta." No one knows what to make of it. One of the people who hears the message is Los, a Moscow radio station operator. Los is obsessed with UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and is building a rocket ship to go there, along with his partner, Spiridnov. Meanwhile, in more earthly concerns, a minor Soviet bureaucrat named Erlich has weaseled his way into receiving Los's apartment. Erlich starts paying entirely too much attention to Los's pretty wife, Natasha, who starts responding to the attention due to Los being too distracted by his work. When he isn't hitting on married women, Erlich is stealing rationed goods and selling them on the black market.
In fact, Los is daydreaming constantly about Mars, imagining a society with a king and queen, Tuksub and Aelita, and a ruling class that lords it over poor workers that are kept in cold storage when they aren't needed. Los, whose marriage is deteriorating, imagines that Aelita looks at Earth from her Martian telescope, sees him, and is attracted to him. He also visualizes Aelita as looking just like his wife. Finally jealousy causes Los to snap, and when he catches his wife in a compromising position with Erlich, he shoots his wife to death. He hops on his rocket ship and flees to Mars, only to find that Aelita is real, and that she wants him.
Notable as probably the first science-fiction feature film ever made. Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy, distant relative of [[Creator/LeoTolstoy that more famous Tolstoy]]. A big hit in the Soviet Union at the time, but the film's rather too honest portrait of things like rationing, black market smuggling, and overcrowded orphanages later got it banned.
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* AllJustADream: It turns out in the end that most of the movie is Los's weird dreams. The mysterious radio signal is actually a slogan on a poster advertising tires. Los and the gang never went to Mars at all. He didn't shoot Natasha, who is still alive, and in the end they are happily reunited.
* ArtificialGravity: Something must be keeping Gusev, Los, and Kratsov on the floor while their rocket zooms to Mars.
* BetaCouple: Los's buddy Gusev, a Red Army soldier, and Masha the nurse whom he marries. They serve little purpose to the story other than having Gusev go along with Los on the flight to Mars.
* HighClassGlass: Erlich wearing one of these definitely marks him as a villain in proletarian 1924 Russia.
* IdenticalStranger: Los and Spiridnov look exactly alike, which allows Los to escape the cops by doing nothing more than putting on a fake beard and glasses. Both characters were played by actor Nikolai Tseretei. And of course Aelita, queen of Mars, looks just like Natasha, although that is justified by being Los's imagination.
* ImagineSpot: Much of the early part of the story is Los daydreaming about a strange Martian society and Aelita its queen, which makes it weird when he lands there and finds out that it's real--or so it seems.
* InterspeciesRomance: Between Los the earthling and Aelita the beautiful Martian babe.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Natasha does this when Los pulls out the gun, and later Los does this when pushing Aelita to her death.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Although it's played as Erlich's just results for being a black market smuggler and all-around dirtbag--but the fact remains that in the end he's arrested for the murder of Spiridnov, despite the fact that Los and the audience know that Spiridov is alive and actually emigrated to the West.
* StockFootage: The opening montage of the whole world receiving the strange message includes a shot of Times Square in New York City.
* TechnicolorScience: Even in a black and white movie! In one scene Los adds a chemical to another chemical in a beaker and it changes color in a satisfying manner.
It is 1921, as [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober the Russian Civil War]] is winding down. All the radio stations in the world receive a bizarre message from space, "Anta Odeli Uta." No one knows what to make of it. One of the people who hears the message is Los, a Moscow radio station operator. Los is obsessed with UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and is building a rocket ship to go there, along with his partner, Spiridnov. Meanwhile, in more earthly concerns, a minor Soviet bureaucrat named Erlich has weaseled his way into receiving Los's apartment. Erlich starts paying entirely too much attention to Los's pretty wife, Natasha, who starts responding to the attention due to Los being too distracted by his work. When he isn't hitting on married women, Erlich is stealing rationed goods and selling them on the black market.
In fact, Los is daydreaming constantly about Mars, imagining a society with a king and queen, Tuksub and Aelita, and a ruling class that lords it over poor workers that are kept in cold storage when they aren't needed. Los, whose marriage is deteriorating, imagines that Aelita looks at Earth from her Martian telescope, sees him, and is attracted to him. He also visualizes Aelita as looking just like his wife. Finally jealousy causes Los to snap, and when he catches his wife in a compromising position with Erlich, he shoots his wife to death. He hops on his rocket ship and flees to Mars, only to find that Aelita is real, and that she wants him.
Notable as probably the first science-fiction feature film ever made. Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy, distant relative of [[Creator/LeoTolstoy that more famous Tolstoy]]. A big hit in the Soviet Union at the time, but the film's rather too honest portrait of things like rationing, black market smuggling, and overcrowded orphanages later got it banned.
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* AllJustADream: It turns out in the end that most of the movie is Los's weird dreams. The mysterious radio signal is actually a slogan on a poster advertising tires. Los and the gang never went to Mars at all. He didn't shoot Natasha, who is still alive, and in the end they are happily reunited.
* ArtificialGravity: Something must be keeping Gusev, Los, and Kratsov on the floor while their rocket zooms to Mars.
* BetaCouple: Los's buddy Gusev, a Red Army soldier, and Masha the nurse whom he marries. They serve little purpose to the story other than having Gusev go along with Los on the flight to Mars.
* HighClassGlass: Erlich wearing one of these definitely marks him as a villain in proletarian 1924 Russia.
* IdenticalStranger: Los and Spiridnov look exactly alike, which allows Los to escape the cops by doing nothing more than putting on a fake beard and glasses. Both characters were played by actor Nikolai Tseretei. And of course Aelita, queen of Mars, looks just like Natasha, although that is justified by being Los's imagination.
* ImagineSpot: Much of the early part of the story is Los daydreaming about a strange Martian society and Aelita its queen, which makes it weird when he lands there and finds out that it's real--or so it seems.
* InterspeciesRomance: Between Los the earthling and Aelita the beautiful Martian babe.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Natasha does this when Los pulls out the gun, and later Los does this when pushing Aelita to her death.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Although it's played as Erlich's just results for being a black market smuggler and all-around dirtbag--but the fact remains that in the end he's arrested for the murder of Spiridnov, despite the fact that Los and the audience know that Spiridov is alive and actually emigrated to the West.
* StockFootage: The opening montage of the whole world receiving the strange message includes a shot of Times Square in New York City.
* TechnicolorScience: Even in a black and white movie! In one scene Los adds a chemical to another chemical in a beaker and it changes color in a satisfying manner.
