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"Brazil" is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam that depicts a nightmarish bureaucratic dystopia. The film matters as a influential work of dystopian cinema that explores themes of totalitarianism, surveillance, and individual resistance against oppressive systems.
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7.7Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry
- Robert De Niro as Harry Tuttle
- Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Ida Lowry
- Ian Holm as Mr. Kurtzmann
- Bob Hoskins as Spoor
- Michael Palin as Jack Lint
Themes
- dreams
- government
- bureaucracy
- police state
- great britain
- technology
- dystopia
- office
- dark comedy
- satire
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Terry Gilliam
- Screenplay by
- Terry Gilliam Tom Stoppard Charles McKeown
- Produced by
- Arnon Milchan
- Starring
- Jonathan Pryce Robert De Niro Katherine Helmond Ian Holm Bob Hoskins Michael Palin Ian Richardson Peter Vaughan Kim Greist
- Cinematography
- Roger Pratt
- Edited by
- Julian Doyle
- Music by
- Michael Kamen
- Production companies
- Embassy International Pictures Brazil Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (United States) 20th Century Fox (International)
- Release dates
- 20 February 1985 ( 1985-02-20 ) (France) 22 February 1985 ( 1985-02-22 ) (United Kingdom) 18 December 1985 ( 1985-12-18 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 142 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States
- Languages
- English , French , German
- Budget
- $15 million
- Box office
- $9.9 million (US)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Director
- Terry Gilliam
- Screenwriter
- Charles McKeown
- Cast member
- Gorden Kaye
- Composer
- Michael Kamen
- Producer
- Arnon Milchan
- Production company
- Regency Enterprises
- Cinematographer
- Roger Pratt
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 260393
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1986-02-19
- film editor
- Julian Doyle
- title
- Brazil
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Production Design
- distributed by
- Disney+
- production designer
- Norman Garwood
- capital cost
- 15000000
- costume designer
- James Acheson
- film format
- 35 mm film
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set during recurring event
- Christmas and holiday season
- review score
- 84/100
- quotes work
- Hava Nagila
- box office
- 9929135
- set in period
- December
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Encyclopedic overview
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, the film stars Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, and Kim Greist.
The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small flat, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines and where people found guilty of crimes are liable for the costs of their interrogation by torture. Brazil's satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporate statism, and state capitalism is reminiscent of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and it has been called "Kafkaesque" as well as absurdist.
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