Glass houses, scheduled sex, and the math of rebellion — perfection has a body count.
200 years have passed after The Great War. The remnants of humanity live in the perfect One State. Despite an authoritarian system of serial numbers, uniforms, glass houses, and scheduled sex, happiness and harmony reign in the society.
Production
Glass architecture that makes you feel naked just watching it.
Costume
Uniforms so severe they deserve their own revolutionary manifesto.
Direction
Dulyan weaponizes Soviet aesthetic against its own ideology.
Director
Hamlet Dulyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zamyatin wrote this in 1921 Soviet Russia, making it the OG dystopian novel — Orwell and Huxley both stole from it shamelessly.
The book was banned in the USSR until 1988; this Russian adaptation finally gives the homeland its own suppressed masterpiece back.
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