The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Rosemary Harris, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is a British-American co-production, based on the 1976 novel of the same title by Ira Levin. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Plot
Barry Kohler, a young amateur Nazi hunter, spies on a meeting of the fugitive Nazi organisation Kameraden in Paraguay. At this meeting, infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele issues instructions for the assassinations of 94 civil servants in Western Europe and North America, all of them low-ranking and aged around 65, on particular dates over the next two years. Kohler telephones Ezra Lieberman, a famous (but penniless and cynical) Nazi hunter living in Vienna, to inform him of his discovery. However, while still on the phone, he is surprised by the Kameraden and killed.
Awards
Cast
- Anne Meara
- Bruno Ganz
- David Brandon
- David Hurst
- Denholm Elliott
- Georg Marischka
- Gregory Peck
- Günter Meisner
- James Mason
- Joachim Hansen
- John Dehner
- John Rubinstein
- Jürgen Andersen
- Laurence Olivier
- Lilli Palmer
- Linda Hayden
- Michael Gough
- Prunella Scales
- Richard Marner
- Rosemary Harris
- Sky du Mont
- Steve Guttenberg
- Uta Hagen
- Walter Gotell
- Wolf Kahler
- Wolfgang Preiss
More details
| author | Heywood Gould |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review Award for Best Actor |
| contentLocation | Brazil Pennsylvania Vienna |
| director | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| editor | Robert Swink |
| events | cloning mad scientist |
| genre | political science fiction thriller |
| keywords | abusive father adolf hitler adopt adoption fraud adoptive father alois alois hitler attack auschwitz auschwitz concentration camp austro-hungarian empire blue eyes civil servant clone dna doberman pinscher id illegally adopted jail jewish-american josef mengele kameraden kill klara klara hitler meet murder nazi hunter neo-nazism new nazi regimes north america odessa |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score |
| producer | Martin Richards Stanley O'Toole |
| productionCompany | ITC Films |
| publisher | ITC Film Distributors |
| recordedAt | Austria Lisbon Paraguay Portugal Vienna |
| theme | mad scientist political thriller science fiction thriller vigilante |