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| | GreenCine | Early Russian Cinema |
 | | One of the big coups of Soviet cinema in the early days was succeeding in wooing one of the big names of Tsarist-era cinema back to work in the country - Iakov Protazanov. |
 | | Yet Aelita already shows his interest in popular cinema and conventional genre forms, such as the detective story, slapstick comedy and romance, while the expressionist portions of the film, although striking, take up relatively little screen time, causing some critics to question whether it should be called a science fiction film at all. |
 | | Essentially, though, Russian art cinema was in hibernation and, after Ivan the Terrible, it would take more than ten years for a Russian director to make a film that would be respected on the international cinema scene. |
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