George Orwell's legendary anti-utopian novel 1984 performed by David Novotny and Zbyšek Horák
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two and two is four. If this is guaranteed, everything else will follow."
In impoverished London, in the territory of the superstate of Oceania, in April 1984, Ministry of Truth official Winston Smith is driven to rebellion. He has grown tired of the cultivated herdiness and the technique of normopsych, used as a bulwark against civil resistance. He begins to secretly confide his doubts to the diary, even though every move in this bleak land is monitored by Big Brother's telestrings. Moreover, the cruelty of the One Party, with Winston's contribution, is purposely erasing from history all memory of the time before the Revolution, for it intends, by means of a disfigured language called the neolect, to dominate the population in body, mind and heart - by pure, immeasurable, totalitarian power. Is there even a glimmer of hope for freedom left? However, even Winston's love for Julia and his criminist relationship with her is an act of protest, so the cage will probably soon fall behind both of them. And then...? Then the crushing denouement of an exquisitely crafted antiutopia about an inhuman regime that has dominated its literary genre for nearly three quarters of a century.
The visionary novel was made into a film in 1984 by director Michael Radford, starring John Hurt and with music by the Eurythmics. The film was named the best British film of the season.
