THX 1138
© 1971 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
In an underground city in the future, the inhabitants are forced to take medication, which keeps them under total control. When worker THX 1138 refuses to take his drugs and falls in love with his assigned roommate, they make plans for a life outside the facility before being forcibly separated. THX manages to escape the loosely controlled prison with two other inmates, but even on the run, the three men are never out of the (electronic) sight of the authorities ... “Buy – and be happy!” With his aesthetically progressive directing debut, George Lucas, who would go on to create the Star Wars franchise, radically challenged the American Way of Life. He clothed his vision of a technocratic Big Brother state geared entirely towards productivity in correspondingly “technological” imagery. The disturbing visuals were reinforced by the brilliant “theatre of noise” created by sound designer Walter Murch, who underlaid the entire film with a futuristic sound montage of announcements, radio chatter and industrial sounds. A brilliant contribution to the genre.
With
- Robert Duvall
- Donald Pleasence
- Don Pedro Colley
- Maggie McOmie
- Ian Wolfe
- Marshall Efron
- Sid Haig
- John Pearce
Crew
Director | George Lucas |
Screenplay | George Lucas, Walter Murch based on an idea by George Lucas |
Cinematography | David Myers, Albert Kihn |
Editing | George Lucas |
Music | Lalo Schifrin |
Sound | Walter Murch |
Special Effects | Hal Barwood |
Art Director | Michael Haller |
Costumes | Donald Longhurst |
Producers | Lawrence Sturhahn, Francis Ford Coppola |
Produced by
American Zoetrope Productions
Additional information
Copy: Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana