Wir (film)

For other films based on the novel, see The Glass Fortress (2016 film).
Wir
(English: We; Russian: Мы)[1]

Wir (1982) - Film Poster
Directed by Vojtěch Jasný[1]
Produced by German TV network ZDF
Written by Claus Hubalek
Yevgeni Zamyatin (novel) (as Jewgenij Samjatin)
Starring Dieter Laser
Sabine von Maydell
Gert Haucke
Joachim Dietmar Mues
Music by Jan Novák
Cinematography Martin Strauß
Norbert Zinkand
Production
company
German TV network ZDF
Release dates
 11 January 1982[1]
Running time
 98 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Wir (German: Wir; English: We; Russian: Мы) is a 1982 German television film[1][2] based on the 1921 Russian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Zamayatin was partly influenced by Jerome K. Jerome's 1891 essay The New Utopia,[3] as well as by the writings of H.G. Wells, who, at the time, was a popular apostle of a scientific socialist utopia.[4] Wir was the first film adaptation of the Russian novel, and was written by Claus Hubalek, directed by Vojtěch Jasný and produced by German TV network ZDF. 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

  • Dieter Laser as D-503
  • Sabine von Maydell as I-330
  • Gert Haucke as S-4710
  • Joachim Dietmar Mues as Erster Arzt
  • Susanne Altschul as O-90
  • Giovanni Früh as R-13
  • Wolfgang Kaven as D-504
  • Dieter G. Knichel as Zweiter Arzt
  • Kurt Lambrigger as Delinquent
  • Marga Maasberg as Altes Weib
  • Heinz Moog as Wohltäter
  • Hanna Ruess as U-27

Legacy

We, the 1921 Russian novel, directly inspired:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Staff. "Wir (1982)". IMDB. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Anybody (October 22, 2014). "Vojtech Jasný – Wir (1981)". WorldsCinema.org. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Published in Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays).(full text)
  4. ↑ Collins, Christopher (1973). Evgenij Zamjatin: An Interpretive Study. The Hague: Mouton & Co.
  5. ↑ Blair E. 2007. Literary St. Petersburg: a guide to the city and its writers. Little Bookroom, p.75
  6. ↑ Mayhew R, Milgram S. 2005. Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem: Anthem in the Context of Related Literary Works. Lexington Books, p.134
  7. ↑ Bowker, Gordon (2003). Inside George Orwell: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 340. ISBN 0-312-23841-X.
  8. ↑ Staff (1973). "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Playboy Interview". Playboy Magazine Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ Le Guin UK. 1989. The Language of the Night. Harper Perennial, p.218
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