"Из отчета Магнуса Редькина "2000-й: воспоминания о будущем"" - читать интересную книгу автора

"AUSTRIA
[...]
Austria's most important (and most curious) contribution to sf cinema is a
propagandist effort called 1 April 2000 (1952; vt April 1st, 2000), dir Wolfgang
Liebeneiner. In AD2000 Austria is still occupied by the USA, the USSR, France
and the UK. When, on 1st April, she declares her independence she is accused of
breaking the peace. Forces of the world police, equipped with death-rays,
descend upon her, and in a public trial she has to defend her right to exist.
This is a charmingly naive period piece, sponsored by the Austrian Government
and with a high-class cast, including the Spanish Riding School and the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra."

BAND, CHARLES
(1952- ) US film producer, director and entrepreneur, his ambitions often
undone by underbudgeting, but responsible for a vigorous burst of
sf/fantasy/horror exploitation movies in the mid-1980s. [...] Test Tube Teens
from the Year 2000 (1994) [...]

FRIEL, ARTHUR O(LNEY)
(1885-1959) US writer and explorer, most of whose work appeared in PULP
MAGAZINES, including the McKay, Knoulton and Ryan sequence of lost-race (see
LOST WORLD) tales set in South America and featuring the exploits of Americans,
who eventually establish a kingdom somewhere close to Peru.
Those published as books - The Pathless Trail (1922), Tiger River (1923), in
which men are transformed into beasts by a strange Circean wine, The King of No
Man's Land (1924) and Mountains of Mystery (1925) - were marginal as sf; but "In
the Year 2000" (1928 Adventure), which never
reached book form, is set after a world war in which White men have triumphed.
[JC]

FULLER, ALVARADO M(ORTIMER)
(1851-? ) US writer whose sf novel, A.D. 2000 (1890; vt Back to Life A.D.
2000 1911), wakes its protagonist ( SLEEPER AWAKES) in the UTOPIAN culture of
AD2000. A single party rules North America, and electrical inventions (after a
great disaster with "aluminum bronze", electricity has become the chief source
of power) dominate the exiguous storyline. [JC]

GRATACAP, LOUIS POPE
(1851-1917) US naturalist and writer whose first sf novel [...] Australia.
The Mayor of New York: A Romance of the Days to Come (1910) is set in AD2000,
when "suicidariums" gently gas the willing and anarchism threatens the
independent state of New York.

ITALY
The enormously popular Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), creator of the Malayan
pirate Sandokan, also published futuristic tales such as La meraviglie del
duemila ["The Marvels of the Year 2000"] (1907).

JAY, PETER