Interplanetary Revolution (Russian: Межпланетная революция) is a 1924 animation directed by experimental studio State Tech Kino. The first attempt to film animation by a collective of young enthusiasts including Vasily Zhuravlev and Ivan Pravov, the project was directed by Komissarenko, Merkulov and Khodataev in the uneasy time just after the Russian Civil War (the year when Aelita was filmed in Soviet Russia).
This animation (which then didn't find its way to cinemas and is incomplete) is obviously also based (though much more losely) on Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy's book Aelita, featuring two Soviets going to Mars in an egg-shaped rocket. It is now unknown how it links to the film: is it a cartoon footage planned to be included into the live action, promotional video, just an alternative book interpretation or a parody?
What exists of it can be found here
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Tropes found here:
- Aliens Never Invented Democracy: The monarch of Mars.
- As Himself: The closing sequence features a portrait of Vladimir Lenin.
- Deranged Animation: Just as it is.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Averted. The Martian Emperor's four guards defend him rather effectively, falling rebels in dozens a shot (the latter seem to be poorly armed and won just by number).
- The Leader: The Commissar brings revolution to Mars just by speaking to the local proletariat.
- Mythology Gag: The Mercury is featured by a man resembling a pre-revolutionary Russia shopkeeper. That many-armed unfriendly fellow is unnamed but may be Jupiter.
- No Hugging, No Kissing: Subverted. We see eyes of the Moon turning into man and woman hugging and kissing; the Comissar finds it very funny but has no relation to the plot. The original romantic line of Los' and Aelita is fully ruled out.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Being 1924, it features this wacky Italian faschist (then, they were best known in Russia for fighting communism).
- 20 Minutes into the Future: The subtitle is "A fully probable event of 1929".
