We (1982 film)

We
Film Poster
Based on	We Yevgeni Zamyatin (as Jewgenij Samjatin)
Written by	Claus Hubalek [de]
Directed by	Vojtěch Jasný
Starring	Dieter Laser Sabine von Maydell Gert Haucke Joachim Dietmar Mues
Music by	Jan Novák
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
Production
Producer	German TV network ZDF
Cinematography	Martin Strauß Norbert Zinkand
Running time	98 minutes
Original release
Network	ZDF
Release	1982 (1982)

We (German: Wir) is a 1982 German science fiction film written by Claus Hubalek [de], directed by Vojtěch Jasný and produced by German TV network ZDF. The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united state of technocratic progressivism.[1] It is based on the 1921 novel We by the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin.[2]

Plot

One thousand years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to spread the state's supposedly proven recipe for justice and happiness for all to other planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a diary that he intends to be carried on 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

See also

• The Glass Fortress, a 2016 film based on the same novel

References

1. Anybody (October 22, 2014). "Vojtech Jasný – Wir (1981)". WorldsCinema.org. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
2. Thomas Koebner (ed.). Filmgenres: Science Fiction. Reclam. pp. 397–401. ISBN 9783159601342.

External links

• We at IMDb