Soylent Green

In 2022, uncontrollable pollution, overpopulation, and climate destabilization have generated dramatic shortages of food, triggering regular riots. In the meantime, Soylent Industries, a shady company monopolizing the food market, has just launched Soylent Green, a hyper-nutritional artificial product. In this dystopian world, a tenacious detective will unveil a nightmarish truth that goes way beyond our most morbid imagination. A sci-fi ecological parable that explores the darkest pathways of human greed.

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Direction: Richard Fleischer

Script: Stanley R. Greenberg

Cinematography: Richard H. Kline

Editing: Samuel E. Beetley

Sound: Harry W. Tetrick, Charles M. Wilborn

Music: Fred Myrow

Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Producers: Walter Seltzer, Russell Thacher

Sets: Edward C. Carfagno

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: USA

Production Year: 1973

Duration: 97'

Contact: Park Circus

Awards/Distinctions: Best Science Fiction Film – Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1975.

Images courtesy of Park Circus/Warner Bros

Richard Fleischer

American filmmaker Richard Fleischer, a Yale School Drama graduate, won an Academy Award for his documentary Design for Death. During his career that spanned over four decades, he directed films across many genres, and collaborated with a series of Hollywood stars, such as Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis, Orson Welles, and Charlton Heston. He gained success and fame through his sci-fi classics, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Fantastic Voyage.