The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, 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 Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, issues instructions for the assassinations of ninety-four civil servants in Northern Europe and North America, all of them low-ranking and aged around sixty-five, 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