russianfantastika &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:russianfantastika @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:53 +0200 Снежная королева [Snezhnaya koroleva / The Snow Queen] (Gennadiy Kazanskiy,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-dd65 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Снежная королева [Snezhnaya koroleva / The Snow Queen] (Gennadiy Kazanskiy, 1967)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" National Missing Children's Day/div div class="img" Снежная королева (1967)/div div class="caption" Kai (Vyacheslav Tsyupa) under the Snow Queen's spell. DPs: Vadim Grammatikov & Sergei Ivanov./div div class="txt" Someone missing is found on National Missing Children's Day (USA) &nbsp; Oh boy, how to do this one without a spoiler… &nbsp; Siblings Gerda and Kai are best friends until one day, the Snow Queen's mirror shatters into a million pieces. One shard pierces Kai's eye, the other his heart, and from that moment on, all he can see is evil and his heart is cold. Now taken in by the Queen, and cold to Gerda's affection, the girl tries all to get Kai, the old Kai, back./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #NationalMissingChildrensDay #GennadiyKazanskiy #HansChristianAndersen #ValeriNikitenko #ElenaProklova #VyacheslavTsyupa #NatalyaKlimova #NadezhdaSimonyan #VadimGrammatikov #SergeiIvanov #drama #fantasy #FairyTale #RussianFantastika #BookAdaption #SovietUnion #1960s/div /section ]]>

Снежная королева [Snezhnaya koroleva / The Snow Queen] (Gennadiy Kazanskiy, 1967)

May

25

National Missing Children's Day

Снежная королева (1967)

Kai (Vyacheslav Tsyupa) under the Snow Queen's spell. DPs: Vadim Grammatikov & Sergei Ivanov.

Someone missing is found on National Missing Children's Day (USA)

 

Oh boy, how to do this one without a spoiler…

 

Siblings Gerda and Kai are best friends until one day, the Snow Queen's mirror shatters into a million pieces. One shard pierces Kai's eye, the other his heart, and from that moment on, all he can see is evil and his heart is cold. Now taken in by the Queen, and cold to Gerda's affection, the girl tries all to get Kai, the old Kai, back.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #NationalMissingChildrensDay #GennadiyKazanskiy #HansChristianAndersen #ValeriNikitenko #ElenaProklova #VyacheslavTsyupa #NatalyaKlimova #NadezhdaSimonyan #VadimGrammatikov #SergeiIvanov #drama #fantasy #FairyTale #RussianFantastika #BookAdaption #SovietUnion #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-dd65 Sun, 25 May 2025 18:30:00 +0200 Медвежья свадьба [Medvezhya svadba / The Bear's Wedding] (Konstantin Eggert +... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/medvezh-ia-svad-ba-1925 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Медвежья свадьба [Medvezhya svadba / The Bear's Wedding] (Konstantin Eggert + Vladimir Gardin, 1925)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Медвежья свадьба (1925)/div div class="caption" In preparation of the bear's wedding, a cook – wearing not much more than an apron and a toque blanche – stirs a huge kettle over a roaring fire. DPs: Eduard Tisse & Pyotr Yermolov./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #KonstantinEggert #VladimirGardin #AnatoliLunacharsky #ProsperMérimée #NatalyaRozenel #EduardTisse #PyotrYermolov #BookAdaptation #theatre #horror #drama #SilentFilm #RussianFantastika #SovietUnion #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Медвежья свадьба [Medvezhya svadba / The Bear's Wedding] (Konstantin Eggert + Vladimir Gardin, 1925)

Sep

28

Медвежья свадьба (1925)

In preparation of the bear's wedding, a cook – wearing not much more than an apron and a toque blanche – stirs a huge kettle over a roaring fire. DPs: Eduard Tisse & Pyotr Yermolov.

#FilmDinner #KonstantinEggert #VladimirGardin #AnatoliLunacharsky #ProsperMérimée #NatalyaRozenel #EduardTisse #PyotrYermolov #BookAdaptation #theatre #horror #drama #SilentFilm #RussianFantastika #SovietUnion #1920s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/medvezh-ia-svad-ba-1925 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:51:13 +0200 Аэлита [Aelita / Aelita: Queen of Mars] (Yakov Protazanov, 1924) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/aelita-1924 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Аэлита [Aelita / Aelita: Queen of Mars] (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" International Astronomy Day/div div class="img" Аэлита (1924)/div div class="caption" Queen Aelita (Yuliya Solntseva) peering through her telescope. DPs: Emil Schünemann & Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky./div div class="txt" Like in Enrico Novelli's Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (1910), interplanetary romance blooms in Аэлита.\ ##### Through her #telescope, Queen Aelita spots engineer Los, a handsome Earth man, and he promptly travels to #Mars to be with her. There, Los uncovers an uprising by the Elders against his beloved queen that he vows to – in good proletarian fashion – stomp down. &nbsp; Aelita*'s constructivist stage and costume design had an enormous influence on science fiction, as far as the late 20th century. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalAstronomyDay #YakovProtazanov #YuliyaSolntseva #EmilSchünemann #YuriZhelyabuzhsky #constructivism #Shostakovich #SilentFilm #astronomy #propaganda #agitprop #romance #SciFi #RussianFantastika #SovietUnion #1920s/div /section ]]>

Аэлита [Aelita / Aelita: Queen of Mars] (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)

Apr

29

International Astronomy Day

Аэлита (1924)

Queen Aelita (Yuliya Solntseva) peering through her telescope. DPs: Emil Schünemann & Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky.

Like in Enrico Novelli's Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (1910), interplanetary romance blooms in Аэлита.
Through her #telescope, Queen Aelita spots engineer Los, a handsome Earth man, and he promptly travels to #Mars to be with her. There, Los uncovers an uprising by the Elders against his beloved queen that he vows to – in good proletarian fashion – stomp down.

 

Aelita*'s constructivist stage and costume design had an enormous influence on science fiction, as far as the late 20th century.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalAstronomyDay #YakovProtazanov #YuliyaSolntseva #EmilSchünemann #YuriZhelyabuzhsky #constructivism #Shostakovich #SilentFilm #astronomy #propaganda #agitprop #romance #SciFi #RussianFantastika #SovietUnion #1920s

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