This is a film that should not be overlooked or forgotten in the present day , 42 years ago this film production joined trends would describe as a society in the future, in the film world .Today aesthetically speaking of Z.P.G. We may seem a modest B-movie with a visual poverty and barely beat in his narrative, but the message is still highly topical , and can even be cases of countries with China and Spain , which in the case of China is a major economic power level, with a high birth rate, which is required to apply the one-child policy.The case of Spain, is set roughly in the film what we are shown a declining country with over 40 million people, statistically speaking, cease to procreate from the year 2017, that the middle classes and low, are being submitted by an authoritarian government of Mariano Rajoy is, a policy of completely unfair cuts following the dictates of Germany, Angela Merkel as the highest authority in Europe.The film speaks not only of children of couples to which the conviction for violating a law, and a government as we are shown , in his excessive fascist control the world's population , also initially shown to planet Earth devastated by uncontrolled excesses which man is the head of the excessive use made of materials , energy resources and forestry and animal species, a terrible future that nobody in their right mind would want.This film has to be seen to reflect what we are men as a species together with their achievements and failures throughout its existence, but it is a movie to be aware , not because of his good cast of actors , but also by the whole story itself .How the cult cinematographic work itself, is a reflection of the defense throughout the life of the most vulnerable and defenseless as in the case of children, and in conclusion is a great movie to be loved and vindicate see from the perspective of the time it was performed as the 70s.

This movie is one rarity in my country scarcely here are copies in DVD or Blu Ray almost in the 2006 was edited one cheap version rated to 89 minutes of the 105 minutes of it's original duration by Vellavision with quality of image very bad.The Spanish public know very well whose are Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin but them at present day to ignore the existence of this film, I as fan of the science fiction was one of them until that I read the novel by Max Ehrlich when I was a child.The book is excellent for me so much as the film, and it's a good material to make a remake if someone producer wants to make one new version of this history.It's a movie that must be revised of it's landing forgotten and discredited by critic and public in it's time.The story is merit to second opportunity in the actual times.

This film was exhibit in the Sitges Fantastic Festival 1972. Geraldine Chaplin was awarded as Best Actress for her play. The commentaries published in SF magazines of their time were enthusiastic. Unfortunately, the film was almost non-exhibit in Barcelona (one week in one theater of double program, and in 1974 in Madrid in the same conditions). Now, there is a DVD edition in Spain, but only in dubbed, not with original voices. This is a film very representative of its time, early '70. The same year when this movie was presented, another SF films ere "Solaris", "A Clockword orange" and "Silent Running": another kind of fantastic or SF films, very different of the SF and fantastic films of today (or even 10 years later...). It is curious to note that some guides and encyclopedias of fantastic films are not favorable to this film, and eve one of them indicates that the movie ends without no sense. At least, the DVD edition shows clearly that the couple arrives to an inland that is a radioactive cemetery, a bitter end for their history. Could be that some versions of the film omitted this end? Certainly, it is not a enjoying movie: it is very sad, very dark. The best scene is, perhaps, when Carole (Geraldine Chaplin) is going to have a baby in the cellar: a very good scene. Z.P.G. is a rarity of its time. It is also another conception of SF movies, now forgotten and missing.

If you are a fan of Logan's Run this film is an interesting must see since it plays as a decent prequel (story wise) to that better known sci-fi film. Since LR was made after ZPG I suppose one should say LR plays like a sequel to ZPG. ZPG takes place in an over-populated future so polluted that people wear gas masks outside (we eventually find out it is war related), animals are found only in a museum (stuffed), and food is found only in paste form. The edict: no more babies (or face death), so those born to already pregnant women have an invisible BE (Before Edict) scanned onto their foreheads. In Logan's Run, much later in the future, babies have small crystals placed in their palms that light when the human turns 30. In ZPG we are introduced to a couple (Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin) who work and live as a 1971 typical swinging couple exhibit in the museum along with another couple (best friends/neighbors). When the couple decides to have a baby anyway they are forced to share it with their neighbors or face certain death. There is a scene where Oliver Reed is checking out premature births in a futuristic library very reminiscent of the scene in Logan's Run where Logan researches Sanctuary. Both films deal with escaping the restrictions of a society so messed up it restricts life itself. Eventually the film becomes an escape picture much like Logan's Run. I can't help but think the baby grows up to be the Peter Ustinov character in Logan's Run. Just a thought.