# ZPG – Die Erde stirbt (1972)

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**Original title**: *Z.P.G.*
**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Thriller
**Directed by**: Michael Campus
**Written by**: Frank De Felitta, Max Ehrlich
**Starring**: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento, David Markham, Bill Nagy

> *Smog covers the earth. The oxygen is depleted. Love is encouraged. But the penalty for birth is death. The time Is tomorrow and there's no time left.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Babies replaced with dolls in a crowded city, sirens blaring, a robot infant cries, a young couple defies the law with a hidden pregnancy, Michael Campus directs a dystopian warning.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, paranoid

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