Some early Soviet sci fi was really fucking good, though…
Aelita: Empress of Mars (yes, really), was incredibly weird, and overly long, but really bloody good, and that was a silent film from the early 1920s…
It managed to mock party officials, too, which is probably quite unusual… I can’t imagine that happened much in later Soviet films!
Movies/TV in the USSR were not very good either, with certain notable exceptions like The Battleship Potemkin.
Some early Soviet sci fi was really fucking good, though…
Aelita: Empress of Mars (yes, really), was incredibly weird, and overly long, but really bloody good, and that was a silent film from the early 1920s…
It managed to mock party officials, too, which is probably quite unusual… I can’t imagine that happened much in later Soviet films!