The Glass Fortress (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Alain Bourret |
Written by | Alain Bourret (as Alan B) Yevgeni Zamyatin (novel) |
Starring | Alain Bourret Pierre-Antoine Piter Amélie De Swarte |
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 science fiction short film directed by Alain Bourret. The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united scientific-progressivist state. It is based on the 1921 novel We by the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin.[1][2][3]
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
See also
- La Jetée, a film with a similar photomontage style
- We, a 1982 film based on the same novel
References
- ^ Staff (2016). "Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Film". Rémi Orts. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ Staff (2016). "Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Music". Rémi Orts. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ Staff (2016). "The Glass Fortress". Facebook. Retrieved October 23, 2016.