Busy with inventing a machine to travel to Mars Engineer Los is devastated as his wife appears to be having an affair with the new tenant in their apartment. He escapes in fantasies about Mars where the Martian Queen Aelita is helpless against thevile bourgeois ""elders"" who keep the working class enslaved. Aelita escapes by sneaking into the secret tower where a revolutionary device allows her to see Earthlings including Los with whom she becomes obsessed. After Los in a fit of rage nearlykills his wife he disguises himself as his colleague Spiridonov and takes off to Mars along with a police informant trying to arrest him and a recently discharged cavalryman who just happens to be there at the time. On Mars they engage in some effective agitprop inciting a proletarian revolution. Having established the Union of the Soviet Socialist Martian Republics Los ""returns"" to Moscow to reconcile with his wife."
Aelita was broadcast on SBS ONE at Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00.