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Aelita
''Aelita'' (, ), also known as ''Aelita: Queen of Mars'', is a 1924 Soviet silent science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov and produced at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy's 1923 novel of the same name. Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi were cast in leading roles. Though the main focus of the story are the daily lives of a small group of people during the post-civil war Soviet Russia, the film's enduring importance comes from its early sci-fi elements. It primarily tells of an engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los () traveling to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders, with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope. In its performances in the cinemas in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich played on the piano the music he provided for the film. In the United States, ''Aelita'' was edited and titled by Benjamin De Casseres for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aelita (novel)
''Aelita'' () also known as ''Aelita, or The Decline of Mars'' is a 1923 science fiction novel by Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Aleksey Tolstoy. In 19351938 the author considerably reworked it into a novel suitable for children and young adults, published in 1938 by ''Detizdat'', "School Library" series. Plot summary The story begins in the Soviet Union, just after the end of the Russian Civil War. An engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los', designs and constructs a revolutionary pulse detonation engine, pulse detonation rocket and decides to set course for Mars. Looking for a companion for the travel, he finally leaves Earth with a retired soldier, Aleksei Gusev. Arriving on Mars, they discover that the planet is inhabited by an advanced civilization. However, the gap between the ruling class and the workers is very strong and reminiscent of early capitalism, with workers living in underground corridors near their machines. Later in the novel, it is explained tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; – 23 February 1945) was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction. Despite having opposed the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he was able to return to Russia six years later and live a privileged life as a highly paid author, reputedly a millionaire, who adapted his writings to conform to the line laid down by the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Life and career Parentage Tolstoy's mother Alexandra Leontievna Turgeneva (1854–1906) was a grand-niece of Nikolay Turgenev, who had been a Decembrist, and a relative of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. She married Count Nikolay Alexandrovich Tolstoy (1849–1900), a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family and a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy. Aleksey claimed that Count Tolstoy was his biological father, which allowed him to style himself as a Count; since his mother had taken a lover and left her husband before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulia Solntseva
Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (; born Yuliya Ippolitovna Peresvetova; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic ''Aelita'' (1924). She is the first female winner of the Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Director Award at Cannes film festival in the 20th century and the first woman to win a directing prize at any of the major European film festivals, for the film ''Chronicle of Flaming Years'' (1961), a war drama about Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941. Biography She was born on in Moscow into the family of Ippolit Peresvetov and Valentina Timokhina. Her mother worked as a senior cashier at the Muir and Maryliz Trading House (now TsUM (Moscow), TsUM). Yuliya and her brother were left without parents early in the care of their grandfather and grandmother. After moving to St. Petersburg, where her grandfather was transferred, she studied at the gymn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (; 4 February (Old Style, O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and USSR, Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbek SSR (1944). Biography Born in the Vinokurov family estate to educated Russian parents, both of whom belonged to the Social estates in the Russian Empire, merchantry social class.:ru: Арлазоров, Михаил Саулович, Mikhail Arlazorov. ''Protazanov''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973, pp. 7—9 His father Alexander Savvich Protazanov came from a long generation of merchants and was a Social estates in the Russian Empire, hereditary distinguished citizen of Kiev (an inherited privilege first granted to Yakov's great-grandfather, a merchant also named Yakov Protazanov who moved with his family to Kiev from Bronnitsy). Alexand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky (13 January 1987) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director and comedian. Hero of Socialist Labour (1974) and People's Artist of the USSR (1949). Early years Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow. At age 16 he entered the Theatre Studio of Theodore Komisarjevsky and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre. His first theatre role was that of the "Old Man" in Aristophanes' play ''Lysistrata''. In 1920, he joined the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre. The young actor's style was in correspondence with the principles of Meyerhold, and so Ilyinsky soon became the central actor of that theatre. He worked with Meyerhold on several of his most famous productions: ''Mistery-Buffo'' (1921), ''The Forest'' (1924), ''The Magnanimous Cuckold'' (1926), ''Woe to Wit'' (1928), ''The Bedbug'' (1929). Alongside Erast Garin, he was the most prominent actor in the Meyerhold theater and this is where he learn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Batalov
Nikolai Petrovich Batalov (; 6 December 1899 in Moscow – 10 November 1937 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He performed in a number of notable films between 1924 and 1931. He was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1933. He married People's Artist of the USSR in 1921. He was actor Aleksei Batalov's uncle. Life and career Batalov joined the Second Studio of the Moscow Art Theater in 1916 and became a member of the theater’s main troupe in 1924. Batalov’s film debut was the supporting role of Red Army private Gusev in Yakov Protazanov’s science fiction film ''Aelita'' (1924). Batalov gained international recognition as the heroic worker Pavel Vlasov in Vsevolod Pudovkin’s ''Mother (1926 film), Mother'' (1926). In Abram Room’s controversial social drama ''Bed and Sofa'' (1927) played a more humorous character. The film was a fictionalized account of the relationship of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky who lived wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Georgievna Orlova
Vera Geogriyevna Orlova (; May 27, 1894September 28, 1977), married Arenskaya (),Kino-teatr.ruВера Георгиевна Орлова was a Russian film actress, who garnered fame during the late Imperial Russian and early Soviet eras. Biography After graduating from the Women's Gymnasium, she worked as a clerk in the Moscow railway office, while taking private acting lessons from the actor and teacher of the Moscow Art Theater N. O. Massalitinov. In 1913–1915, she studied at the Moscow Art Theater school. She continued working there as an actress until 1924, when she transferred to the Moscow Art Theater-II, where she continued to work until 1936. From 1945–1951, she worked at the State Theater of Film Actors. She began acting in films in 1915, and during her three years of work in pre-revolutionary cinema, she appeared in thirty films. Her first role was the leading role of a peasant girl in the film "The Seagull" (based on the romance of those years "Here the morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
Yuri Andreyevich Zhelyabuzhsky (; – 24 October 1955) was a Russian and Soviet cinematographer, film director, screenwriter and animator, film theorist and professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, VGIK.Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // main editor Sergei Yutkevich (1987). — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 640 pages Early years Zhelyabuzhsky was born into a Russian nobility, noble Russian family. His mother Maria Andreyeva (actress), Maria Andreyeva (born Yurkovskaya) was a famous stage actress and revolutionary; she also came from a theatrical family of Fyodor Aleksandrovich Fyodorov-Yurkovsky who served as the main director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre and Maria Pavlovna Leleva, an actress of mixed Germans, German-Estonians, Estonian origin. Yuri's father Andrei Alekseyevich Zhelyabuzhsky was an Active State Councillor who belonged to an old noble family tree which originated in the 15th century and gave birth to a number of prominent high-ranking officials and diplom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorky Film Studio
Gorky Film Studio () is a municipally-owned film studio in Moscow, Russia. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed at the Gorky Film Studio throughout its history and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals. History In 1915, Mikhail Semenovich Trofimov, a merchant from Kostroma, established the Rus' film production unit () with studio facilities. In 1936, the studio was transferred to Butyrskaya Street in Moscow. The Rus' studio, employing many actors from Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, specialized in film adaptations of Russian classics (e.g., Tolstoy's '' Polikushka'', 1919). In 1924, the Rus' studio was renamed into the International Workers Relief agency (), abbreviated as ''Mezhrabpom-Rus' '' (). The first Soviet (sci-fi) film, '' Aelita'', was filmed at this studio in 1924. Four years later, the studio was renamed '' Mezhrabpomfilm'' (), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofya Levitina
Sofya Levitina () was a Soviet actress. Selected filmography * 1924 — ''Aelita'' * 1934 — ''Boule de Suif "Boule de Suif" (), translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", "Ball of Lard", or "Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant, first published on 15/16 April 1880. It is arguabl ...'' * 1944 — '' The Wedding'' References External links СОФЬЯ ЛЕВИТИНАon kino-teatr.ru * {{DEFAULTSORT:Levitina, Sofya Soviet actresses 1877 births 1950 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
