Interplanetary Revolution
One of the most psychedelic and innovative animated films I've ever seen, decades before its time. Proof that many science fiction concepts are far older than we might suspect.
Nikolai Khodataev
Filmography
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The Music Box
"An animated satire in two parts" (and no relation to the Academy Award®-winning Laurel and Hardy short of the same name that also came out in 1932) this Soviet cartoon revels in the art of caricature. Even the horses are snobby and vainglorious in a pre-Revolutionary Tsarist world of ruling...Watch Movie
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Samoyed Boy
Man's best friend proves even more valuable amidst the perils of the Frozen North in this beautiful animated Soviet adventure designed in the timeless style of woodcuts. Far from a simple folk tale, however, it goes on to show "boy" hero Chu shaking off his frigid village's primitive,...Watch Movie
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China in Flames
CHINA IN FLAMES rallies popular support for the Soviet Union’s alliance with China using an eclectic array of animation techniques and rhetorical strategies. Bold cut-out caricatures of greedy imperialists give way to an allegorical story about rice farmers done in the style of Chinese...Watch Movie
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Interplanetary Revolution
“Warriors of the Revolution: Save Martian Workers Enslaved by Capitalism!” With that we’re launched into an exotic blend of Bolshevik ideology and H.G. Wells science fiction, made in the forward-looking year of Lenin’s death. The film’s futurist collage generates a riot of...Watch Movie
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Interplanetary Revolution
Makes me wonder if there was some sort of live narration to accompany the film. Visually wonderful nonetheless...
Interplanetary Revolution
This is one of the best things ive ever seen
Interplanetary Revolution
Awesome! Soviet propaganda doesn't get more fun!
Interplanetary Revolution
they even had a picture of lennon towards the end of this film great propaganda in its day.