- Aelita @ Marginal Notes Film screening with Live soundtrack by Yann Keller Aelita, also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. The film was made at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It is in part set in post […]