A Clockwork Orange (film) world really means". A Clockwork Orange (film) A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain. Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (including Beethoven), committing rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke),
Dan Smith (British author) Dan Smith (British author) Dan Smith OBE (born 1951) is a British author, cartographer and peace researcher. He is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. He was Director of Peace Research Institute Oslo from 1993 to 2001. Smith was the Secretary General of the independent peacebuilding organisation International Alert and is currently the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). After graduating in English Literature from the University of Cambridge in 1973, Smith worked first for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament before taking up research on UK defence policies in 1976. He was