Aelita, The Queen Of Mars (Silent) (1924) Rating: Starring: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolai Batalov, Vera Orlova Director: Yakov Protazanov Category: Science-Fiction Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: [None] Length: 111 mins     Is a fantastic adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow, who dreams of Aelita, the Queen of Mars, and builds a spaceship to take him to her. They fall in love, but Los soon finds himself embroiled in a proletarian uprising to establish a Martian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics! This story is based loosely upon a novella by Alexei Tolstoy, a distant relative of Lev Tolstoy, who had established a reputation for popular novels, poetry and drama before 1917 and who had just returned to Moscow after emigrating during the Revolution. The director, Yakov Protazonov, was a pre-Revolutionary Russian film giant who was persuaded to give up a successful new career in France and Germany to offer his skills and prestige of the untried Soviet film industry.