The Glass Fortress (film)
| The Glass Fortress | |
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| File:Film2016-TheGlassFortress.jpg The Glass Fortress (2016) - Film Poster | |
| Directed by | Alain Bourret[1][2][3] |
| Written by | Alain Bourret (as Alan B) Yevgeni Zamyatin (novel) |
| Starring | Pierre-Antoine Piter Amélie De Swarte |
| Narrated by | Alain Bourret (as Alan B) |
| Cinematography | Fanny Storck |
| Edited by | Fanny Storck |
| Music by | Rémi Orts |
Production company | Neva Prod |
Release date | April 2016 |
Running time | 28:30 |
| Country | French |
| Language | English |
The Glass Fortress is a 2016 French film based on the 1921 Russian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Zamayatin was partly influenced by Jerome K. Jerome's 1891 essay The New Utopia,[4] as well as by the writings of H.G. Wells, who, at the time, was a popular apostle of a scientific socialist utopia.[5] The Glass Fortress is a film adaptation of the Russian novel, and was directed by Alain Bourret.[1][2][3] The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state.
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 extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.
Cast
- 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
Legacy
We, the 1921 Russian novel, directly inspired:
- Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932)[6]
- Ayn Rand's Anthem (1938)[7]
- George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)[8]
- Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952)[9]
- William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run (1967)[10]
- Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974)[11]
See also
- La Jetée (similar photomontage style)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- This Perfect Day
References
- ^ a b Staff (2016). "Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Film". Rémi Orts. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ a b Staff (2016). "Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Music". Rémi Orts. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ a b Staff (2016). "The Glass Fortress". Facebook. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ Published in Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays).(full text)
- ^ Collins, Christopher (1973). Evgenij Zamjatin: An Interpretive Study. The Hague: Mouton & Co.
- ^ Blair E. 2007. Literary St. Petersburg: a guide to the city and its writers. Little Bookroom, p.75
- ^ Mayhew R, Milgram S. 2005. Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem: Anthem in the Context of Related Literary Works. Lexington Books, p.134
- ^ Bowker, Gordon (2003). Inside George Orwell: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 340. ISBN 0-312-23841-X.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Staff (1973). "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Playboy Interview". Playboy Magazine Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Berg, Chris (March 1, 2008). "Goddamn you all to hell: The revealing politics of dystopian movies". Institute of Public Affairs. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ Le Guin UK. 1989. The Language of the Night. Harper Perennial, p.218
