Sleeper

Woody Allen confirmed the scientific validity of his idea of a scenario during one lunch with Isaac Asimov. Allen also consulted with leading science fiction writer Ben Bova (Ben Bova) to make sure that his futuristic predictions at all feasible.

A device used to injections, it is actually installing to remove solder (used for disassembly of electronic components), which was painted white.

Miles said that his world could end when a madman named albert shenker grabbed a nuclear device. Albert shenker was President of the American Federation of teachers.

The rebel hideout was filmed at the Sculpture house. This building was designed and built by architect Charles Deaton (Charles Deaton) in the mountains West of Denver. The house was built in 1963, but the interior was not yet completed at the time of filming. In 2004 the house was on sale for $ 10 million.

Woody Allen originally conceived the story (in which people in the future will be forbidden to talk) as a real possibility of creating a modern silent film.

Woody Allen plays the clarinet in the soundtrack to this film.

This is the second appearance of Diane Keaton in the woody Allen movie. Their personal relationship with Allen ended when she was just starting to appear in his films.

Because of too careful study of scenery and costumes, the film was behind schedule and exceeded its budget, which, however, amounted to only $ 2 million.

During the installation of the 35 hours of footage were are clipped in 90 minutes of film, and this work was completed two days before the release.

According to editor Ralph Rosenblum, woody Allen filmed and then deleted the scene in which miles plays chess with figures in human growth, and after he loses a chess piece sentence him to death.

After the film was released in the French canadian region, called "woody and the robots", woody Allen has added in all his subsequent contracts that prohibit changing the name of his films.

In 2006, the magazine Premiere included this film in the list of "50 best comedies of all time."

Original woody Allen planned to make the three-hour film, consisting of two parts. In the first part of the event would be happening in the present, and a second in the future. But the production company, United Artists rejected the idea.

This film marked the end of the two planned projects on the novel by H. G. wells, 1899 "When the sleeper awakes," which was partly filmed, and this film. One dealt with American International, and the second was produced by George PAL.

Initially, woody Allen had hoped to remove most of the film in Brazil. However, budget constraints forced him to shoot only in the USA.

In the centerfold of Playboy, the film depicted Shiblom Lina (Lina Sjoblom), "Miss November" in 1972.

The ubiquitous image of "our leader" is actually a photo of the guru of the counterculture of the 1960-ies of Timothy Leary.

When miles walks past the McDonald's XXIII century, you notice a figure, which has 51 zero, that displays the number of customers served. For comparison, the Avogadro's number, equal to the number of tiny particles (atoms, molecules) in one mole of substance there are only 23.

Woody Allen and rock star Alice Cooper, admirers of each other. They met by chance in the same hotel while Allen was filming and Cooper was on tour. Allen immediately offered Cooper to play a cameo role of a human hitchhiker, he agreed (in the credits it was not specified).

Street footage of the building in which he lives the character of woody Allen, were filmed at the National center for atmospheric research in boulder, Colorado, USA.