Brazil

Brazil

2DCS12
Director:Terry Gilliam
Premiere:15. January 2003
Length:144 minutes
Genre:Scifi

PROJEKT 100

Director: Terry Gilliam  •  Scenario: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown  •  Kameraman: Roger Pratt  •  Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin

Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.

Length: 144 min

Year: 1985
Local premiere date: 15. January 2003

Country of origin:

  • United Kingdom

PROJEKT 100

Director: Terry Gilliam  •  Scenario: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown  •  Kameraman: Roger Pratt  •  Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin

Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.

Year: 1985
Local premiere date: 15. January 2003

Country of origin:

  • United Kingdom