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We (unreleased film)

unreleased film directed by Hamlet Dulyan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ86662618 ↗
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We (Russian: Мы) is a Russian dystopian film directed by Hamlet Dulyan, a screen adaptation of the dystopian novel of the same name by Yevgeny Zamyatin, scheduled for release in 2021.

The film was produced by Gevond Andreasyan and Sarik Andreasyan's company K.B.A. (Russian: Кинокомпания братьев Андреасян, romanized: Kinokompaniya brat'yev Andreasyan, lit. 'Andreasyan Brothers Film Company').

Plot

The Great War is over. As a result, most of the population perished. The survivors live in an impeccable, authoritarian One State. Each has its own serial number and uniform. For the D-503 engineer, who builds a super-powerful spacecraft, such a life is ideal. And suddenly he meets a woman, I-330, who radically changes his ideas about himself and awakens uncontrollable feelings.

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Production

This is the first Russian film adaptation of Zamyatin's novel. The project was initially announced in 2017.

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The public source identifies “We (unreleased film)” as unreleased film directed by Hamlet Dulyan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around unreleased, film and directed.

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This entry incorporates text from “We (unreleased film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.