The official blurb:
"Aelita: Queen of Mars"
Before Buck Rogers and "Metropolis," this lavish 1924 Soviet production imagined delirious cubist-futuristic space adventures with cruel overlords and oppressed masses. A mysterious radio message echoes around the globe, and only a visionary Soviet engineer with a Mars fixation speculates that it's a communication from space. He embarks on a rocket trip to Mars, where capitalist Elders freeze workers and keep them refrigerated for later use. The 1924 film, shot within a brief window of ideological relaxation and freer expression, has a distinctly individualist, anti-revolutionary feel about it. The expansive Martian sets and evocative costumes influenced science-fiction films for decades to come, and the hallucinatory plot device that concludes the story could have inspired "Total Recall."
Check it out on youtube: I think...
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