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{{Infobox film
| name = The Glass Fortress
| image = File:Film2016-TheGlassFortress.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = ''The Glass Fortress'' (2016) - Film Poster
| director = Alain Bourret
| producer =
| writer = Alain Bourret (as Alan B)<br>[[Yevgeni Zamyatin]] (novel)
| starring = Alain Bourret<br>Pierre-Antoine Piter<br>Amélie De Swarte
| music = Rémi Orts
| cinematography = Fanny Storck
| editing = Fanny Storck
| studio = Neva Prod
| distributor =
| released = April 2016
| runtime = 28:30
| country = [[France|French]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''The Glass Fortress''''' (French: ''La forteresse de verre'') is a 2016 French [[Science fiction film|science fiction short film]] directed by Alain Bourret. The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united scientific-[[Progressivism|progressivist state]].<ref name="AE-2015">{{cite web |last=Real |first=Willi |title= The Glass Fortress, based upon Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (first published in an English translation in 1924) |url=https://www.academia.edu/11088645/The_Glass_Fortress |date=2015 |work=[[Academia.edu]] |accessdate=July 12, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="AE-201503">{{cite web |last=Khayati |first=Anass |title=Review of "The Glass Fortress" |url=https://www.academia.edu/23853368/Review_of_the_Glass_Fortress_by_Anass_Khayati |date=March 2015 |work=[[Academia.edu]] |accessdate=14 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name="SF-20160606">{{cite web |last=Wittick |first=Louis |title=The Glass Fortress |url=http://www.scifi4ever.com/cinema-0097-the-glass-fortress.html |date=June 6, 2016 |work=SciFi4Ever.com |accessdate=July 12, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="CW-20160429">{{cite web |last1=Erlich |first1=Richard D. |last2=Dunn |first2=Thomas P. |title=The Glass Fortress |url=http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=THE_GLASS_FORTRESS |date=April 29, 2016 |work=ClockWorks2.org |accessdate=July 12, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="UF-2018">{{cite web |last=Arnaud |first=Isabelle |title=The Glass Fortress : Le court métrage |url=http://www.unificationfrance.com/article45501.html |language=fr |date=2018 |work=UnificationFrance.com |accessdate=July 12, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="AL-20160627">{{cite web |last=Vialo |first=Orianne |title=La dystopie au coeur de l'adaptation de Nous Autres, par Alain Bourret |url=https://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/la-dystopie-au-coeur-de-l-adaptation-de-nous-autres-par-alain-bourret/65659 |language=fr |date=June 27, 2016 |work=ActuaLitte.com |accessdate=July 12, 2018 }}</ref><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=July 12, 2018 }}</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=July 12, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="FB-2016">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=The Glass Fortress |url=https://www.facebook.com/theglassfortress/ |date=2016 |work=[[Facebook]] |accessdate=July 12, 2018 }}</ref> The film is based on the 1921 novel ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' by the Russian writer [[Yevgeny Zamyatin]].

==Plot==
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 [[Exoplanet|extraterrestrial planets]]. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a [[Diary|journal]] that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.<ref name="SF-20160606" />

==Cast==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Alain Bourret (as Alan B) as Narrator
* Pierre-Antoine Piter as D-503/Daniel
* Amélie De Swarte as I-330/Iris
* Julien Prost as The Well-Doer
* Alexandre Bourret as The Spokesman
* Axel Bourret as The Assistant Engineer
* Axel Bourret as The Doctor
* Fanny Storck as The Nurse
{{div col end}}

==Reception==
''The Glass Fortress'' is an experimental film that employs a technique known as [[Freeze frame shot|freeze frame]], and is shot in [[black-and-white]], which help support the grim atmosphere of the story's [[Dystopia|dystopian society]].<ref name="SF-20160606" /> The film is technically similar to ''[[La Jetée]]'' (1962), directed by [[Chris Marker]], and refers somewhat to ''[[THX 1138]]'' (1971), by [[George Lucas]], in the "religious appearance of the Well Doer".<ref name="CW-20160429" /> According to film critic [[Sivakumar Vijayan#Career|Isabelle Arnaud]], ''The Glass Fortress'' has a special atmosphere underlining a story of thwarted love that will be long remembered.<ref name="UF-2018" />

Referring to the film project, reviewer Anass Khayati noted that ''The Glass Fortress'' is a "very welcome addition to the Zamyatinian literature as it draws more attention to a work that is appreciated less than it deserves ... [the film director] recaptures D-503’s frustrated dream and his incomplete journey to emancipation in a loyal and original rendering. Such gesture should be understood not only as referring to a fictional work that was written in the twenties of the past century: it is in fact a celebration of a novel that sensitises us on issues that are topical to a glocalised, increasingly globalised, [[National Security Agency|NSA]]-ed world."<ref name="AE-201503" />

According to Alain Bourret, director of the film, "From the beginning, I wanted to put my work more in an academic setting than in the world of cinema. In form, the work was of the traditional type, with only two concessions to the digital one: the shooting and the video editing. Beforehand, I approached and contacted many universities, so that my adaptation is now enrolled in the curriculum of Czech, English and American universities."<ref name="AL-20160627" /> Bourret continues, "What increases the uniqueness of ''The Glass Fortress'' is that the actors did not know my adaptation at all, let alone the script. On screen, they all had an expression of lost beings, they roam like ghosts. This is the message I wanted to convey, that of a lost being, D-503, in a newly acquired freedom and the progressive awakening of his conscience."<ref name="AL-20160627" />

== See also ==
* ''[[La Jetée]]'', 1962 film with similar [[photomontage]] style
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''
* ''[[This Perfect Day]]''
* ''[[We (1982 film)|We]]'', 1982 film based on the same novel

==References==
{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}

==External links==
* {{youtube|PQ6Au4BzFMQ|Film – ''The Glass Fortress'' (2016) (28:30)}}
* {{youtube|aLfXCkFQtXw|Film – ''La Jetée'' (1962,FR) (26:38) (eng subs)}}
* {{youtube|5T9qh4Z46FE|Film – ''Wir'' (1982,GE) (97:59)}} (+ [http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6176485/wir-en eng subs])
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164234/ Film – ''Wir'' (1982,GE)] at [[Internet Movie Database|IMDB]]
* ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' – Full text ([https://mises.org/books/we_zamiatin.pdf english] [http://az.lib.ru/z/zamjatin_e_i/text_0050.shtml russian])
* [http://nice-fictions.fr/alain-bourret/ Nice Fictions for the imagination (french)]
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