An animated communist propaganda designed to express the futuristic ideals for the spread of their political/economical system. The necessity isn't just to conquer more territory through Europe, defeating capitalism and Nazism (yes, this was 1924 and they already knew that party was a huge menace); no, no...the greater idea is to conquer space, other planets, maybe some galaxies. This is the tale of a certain Comrade Kominternov, whose mission in the future to come, the not so far year of 1929, was to evaporate with capitalism and Nazism and then plant communism through the outer space. Crazy, isn't it?
Well, the cartoon is amazingly well-made (though ridiculous now) and I think they even managed to mix some real photographed sets along with stop motion techniques that truly looked wonderful on the screen. The story concept, though crazed enough to make you nuts, has some strange premonitory things but not necessarily in the exact same way. For instance, why picking up 1929, five years earlier, as their year of conquest over capitalism? Lucky number or random, you guess it. All we know is that it was in that particular year the crash that collapsed the financial world took place, everybody was worried except the communists - despite their lack of material and goods, they went fine because their system was different. Not sure if this short film was all that popular in URSS back then, but I bet some of the creators and the folks who remembered seeing a few years back, might have thought "Wow, we're getting there and it's just one step to conquer another planet or the moon". And I was in real awe in seeing how they saw the Nazi Party as an extremely potent force way before Hitler, I mean, that party was only 4 years-old, taking over from another party that didn't last long.
Whatever your current ideology, right or left, "Interplanetary Revolution" is something that must be seen, at least once. The greater the knowledge of you have about the historical context this was made or about history, the greater the experience gets. Not to mention, the quality employed, the techniques used, which is pure fascination. 8/10
