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{{Infobox film |
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| name = The Glass Fortress |
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| image = File:Film2016-TheGlassFortress.jpg |
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| image_size = 200px |
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| caption = The Glass Fortress (2016) - Film Poster |
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| director = Alain Bourret<ref name="RO-2016-film" /><ref name="RO-2016-music" /><ref name="FB-2016" /> |
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| producer = |
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| writer = Alain Bourret (as Alan B)<br>[[Yevgeni Zamyatin]] (novel) |
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| narrator = Alain Bourret (as Alan B) |
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| starring = Pierre-Antoine Piter<br>Amélie De Swarte |
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| music = Rémi Orts |
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| cinematography = Fanny Storck |
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| editing = Fanny Storck |
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| studio = Neva Prod |
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| released = April 2016 |
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| runtime = 28:30 |
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| country = [[France|French]] |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
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'''''The Glass Fortress''''' is a 2016 [[French film]] based on the 1921 [[Russian novel]] ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' by [[Yevgeny Zamyatin]]. Zamayatin was partly [[We (novel)#Literary significance and influences|influenced]] by [[Jerome K. Jerome]]{{'s}} 1891 essay ''[http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/cultn/cultn014.pdf The New Utopia]'',<ref>Published in ''Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays)''.[https://books.google.com/books?id=8gklAAAAMAAJ (full text)]</ref> as well as by the writings of [[H.G. Wells]], who, at the time, was a popular apostle of a scientific socialist utopia.<ref name="CC-1973">{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Christopher |title=Evgenij Zamjatin: An Interpretive Study |year=1973 |publisher=Mouton & Co. |location=The Hague }}</ref> ''The Glass Fortress'' is a film adaptation of the Russian novel, and was directed by Alain Bourret.<ref name="RO-2016-film">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Film |url=http://www.remiorts.com/films-court-metrage/ |date=2016 |work=Rémi Orts |accessdate=October 23, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="RO-2016-music">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Music |url=http://www.remiorts.com/albums/the-glass-fortress/ |date=2016 |work=Rémi Orts |accessdate=October 23, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="FB-2016">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=The Glass Fortress |url=https://www.facebook.com/theglassfortress/ |date=2016 |work=[[Facebook]] |accessdate=October 23, 2016 }}</ref> The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. |
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==Plot== |
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One thousand years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship ''Integral'' is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a [[Diary|journal]] that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship. |
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==Cast== |
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* Alain Bourret (as Alan B) as Narrator |
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* Pierre-Antoine Piter as D-503/Daniel |
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* Amélie De Swarte as I-330/Iris |
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* Julien Prost as The Well-Doer |
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* Alexandre Bourret as The Spokesman |
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* Axel Bourret as The Assistant Engineer |
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* Axel Bourret as The Doctor |
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* Fanny Storck as The Nurse |
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==Legacy== |
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''[[We (novel)|We]]'', the 1921 [[Russian novel]], directly inspired: |
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* [[Aldous Huxley]]{{'s}} ''[[Brave New World]]'' (1932)<ref>Blair E. 2007. Literary St. Petersburg: a guide to the city and its writers. Little Bookroom, p.75</ref> |
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* [[Ayn Rand]]{{'s}} ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' (1938)<ref>Mayhew R, Milgram S. 2005. Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem: Anthem in the Context of Related Literary Works. Lexington Books, p.134</ref> |
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* [[George Orwell]]{{'s}} ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949)<ref>{{cite book |last=Bowker |first=Gordon |authorlink= |coauthors= |others= |title=Inside George Orwell: A Biography |year=2003 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location= |isbn=0-312-23841-X |page=340 }}</ref> |
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* [[Kurt Vonnegut]]{{'s}} ''[[Player Piano (novel)|Player Piano]]'' (1952)<ref name="PLBY-1973">[http://www.playboy.com/articles/kurt-vonnegut-jr-interview/index.html Staff (1973). "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Playboy Interview". Playboy Magazine] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607145055/http://www.playboy.com/articles/kurt-vonnegut-jr-interview/index.html |date=June 7, 2011 }}</ref> |
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* [[William F. Nolan]] & [[George Clayton Johnson]]{{'s}} ''[[Logan's Run]]'' (1967)<ref name="IPA-20080301">{{cite web |last=Berg |first=Chris |title=Goddamn you all to hell: The revealing politics of dystopian movies |url=http://ipa.org.au/publications/976/goddamn-you-all-to-hell-the-revealing-politics-of-dystopian-movies/pg/9 |date=March 1, 2008 |work=[[Institute of Public Affairs]] |accessdate=December 11, 2016 }}</ref> |
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* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]{{'s}} ''[[The Dispossessed]]'' (1974)<ref>Le Guin UK. 1989. The Language of the Night. Harper Perennial, p.218</ref> |
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== See also == |
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* ''[[La Jetée]]'' (similar [[photomontage]] style) |
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* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' |
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* ''[[This Perfect Day]]'' |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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* {{youtube|PQ6Au4BzFMQ|Film - ''The Glass Fortress'' (2016) (28:30)}} |
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