Aelita, Queen of Mars - Touch your lips to mine (1924)

The NFSA has digitised the landmark Russian feature film Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924). Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoi and produced only seven years after the Russian Revolution, this silent film employed science-fiction to promote the Communist cause.
It is also noted for its remarkable constructivist Martian sets and costumes which directly influenced the more famous Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang, and even the much later Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, USA, 1980).