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The Boys from Brazil (1978) 7.0
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Director:Franklin J. Schaffner |
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| Laurence Olivier | ... | ||
| James Mason | ... |
Eduard Seibert
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Lilli Palmer | ... |
Esther Lieberman
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Frieda Maloney
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Barry Kohler
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Sidney Beynon
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Mrs. Doring
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David Bennett
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Mrs. Curry
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Professor Bruckner
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Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the U.S. in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery. Written by Rob Hartill
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
12 October 1978 (Netherlands) See more »Also Known As:
Los niños del Brasil See more »Box Office
Budget:
$12,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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[Takes photo album and places it on his lap]
Dr. Josef Mengele: This album is full of pictures of him. Bobby Wheelock and ninety-three other boys are exact genetic duplicates of him, bred entirely from his cells. He allowed me to take half a liter of his blood and a cutting of skin from his ribs.
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(uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauß
Arranged by Arthur Morton
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Trivia
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards at the 1979 Oscars but failed to win any statuettes. Ironically, it was Laurence Olivier playing the Nazi hunter and not Gregory Peck in the meatier lead role who was nominated for Best Actor. See more »Goofs
Shortly before the first assassination you see the victim taking a leak. Over him are two signs. On closer look you'll notice that they both list Austrian Addresses. Like the scene moments earlier this was also shot in Austria and not in Gladbeck/Germany. See more »Quotes
Dr. Josef Mengele: Do you know what I saw on the television in my motel room at one o'clock this morning? Films of Hitler! They are showing films about the war! The movement! People are fascinated! The time is ripe! Adolf Hitler is alive![Takes photo album and places it on his lap]
Dr. Josef Mengele: This album is full of pictures of him. Bobby Wheelock and ninety-three other boys are exact genetic duplicates of him, bred entirely from his cells. He allowed me to take half a liter of his blood and a cutting of skin from his ribs.
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Soundtracks
"The Blue Danube"(uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauß
Arranged by Arthur Morton
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A very well done (if quite implausible) fictional account about a post World War II Nazi plot based in Paraguay and led by Josef Mengele that could lead to the establishment of the Fourth Reich.
Gregory Peck was well cast as the evil Mengele. Having seen him primarily in "good guy" roles, I was impressed by how well he pulled off this role as one of the more sinister characters of the 20th century. Laurence Olivier also put on a good performance as the Nazi hunter Lieberman.
The basics of the story (I won't give it away) are implausible, but strike me as the sort of thing Nazi scientists might have wanted to do if the knowledge had been around in the 1940's. Some parts are predictable (I figured out who - or what - the "boys" were soon after they appeared) but I must confess that I wasn't able to figure out the reason behind the killing of the 65 year old civil servants who were married to younger women until it was revealed. And the ending of the movie was appropriately spine-chilling. What will this boy (indeed, these boys) grow up to be, anyway?
Well done, indeed. 8/10