TY - ADVS AU - Tolstoi, Alexi AU - Protazanov, I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich, ED - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) TI - Aėlita AV - VAB 8557 (viewing copy) U1 - 891.73 PY - 1924/// CY - U.S.S.R. PB - [s.n.] KW - Working class KW - Soviet Union KW - Drama KW - Science fiction KW - mim KW - Fantasy N1 - Minor change version: [English language version]. -- United States : Kino Video, 1991; Copyright notice for minor change version: David H. Shepard (in notice: Kino International Corporation). DCR 1991; PUB 1May91; REG 15Nov91; PA523-549; Original release title: Aėlita, from Birkos, A.M., Soviet cinema; Film originally silent; designation of sound in physical description refers to film score. English titles per Kino International notheatrical catalogue, winter, 1991, supplement (in M/B/RS Organization files); Per videocassette box: series titles for minor change version are: The signature series, and, Red silents--visions of a workers' state; Based on Aėlita by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Sources used: copyright data sheet; COPICS data base; videocassette box; Birkos, A.M., Soviet cinema : directors and films, p. 129; Costumes and design, Alexandra Exter ; decor, Isaac Ravinovich, Victor Simov, Sergei Kozlovsky ; photography, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, E. Schoneman; Yulia Solntseva, Valentina Kuinzhi, Nikolai Batalov, Igor Ilinsky N2 - Three Soviets fly to Mars; the Martian queen, Aelita, and one of the Soviet men fall in love, while a workers' revolution takes place on the planet ER -