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An engineer in NEP Moscow picks up a strange radio message, suspects his wife, and escapes into a dream of leading a revolution on Mars. Mars is Alexandra Exter's Constructivist costumes on a stage. Moscow, with its speculators and crowded flats, is the better half of the film.
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The baseline. Protazanov cuts like the pre-revolutionary professional he was, and all the novelty is in the costumes. The new cinema starts by refusing exactly this.
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