| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Jonathan Pryce |
Sam Lowry
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| Robert De Niro |
Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle
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| Katherine Helmond |
Mrs. Ida Lowry
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| Ian Holm |
Mr. M. Kurtzmann
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| Bob Hoskins |
Spoor
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| Michael Palin |
Jack Lint
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| Ian Richardson |
Mr. Warrenn
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| Peter Vaughan |
Mr. Helpmann
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| Kim Greist |
Jill Layton
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| Jim Broadbent |
Dr. Jaffe
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Fantasy; Sci-Fi |
| Director |
Terry Gilliam |
| Producer |
Arnon Milchan |
| Writer |
Terry Gilliam; Tom Stoppard |
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| Language |
English |
| Running Time |
131 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka's famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr. Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant. The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. This DVD version of Brazil is the special director's cut that first appeared in Criterion's comprehensive (and expensive) six-disc laser package in 1996. --Jim Emerson
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Podobně jako ve DVANÁCTI OPICÍCH, i zde Gilliam umístil svůj příběh do těžko definovatelného období kolem Vánoc "někdy ve 20. století", kdy armády bezejmenných úředníčků striktně dodržujících kancelářskou etiku jak z 30. let na každém kroku doprovází fantaskní přístroje moderní doby. Groteskní prostředí doplňují stejně groteskní postavy - hlavní hrdina Sam (Jonathan Pryce), jež se postupně sbližuje s naivní Jill (Kim Griest), pro kterou největší potěšení představuje sauna a filmy bratrů Marxových; Samova matka posedlá plastickou chirurgií; Jack v podání Michaela Palina, jemuž byla tato role napsána na tělo a jehož postava prochází ve filmu proměnou z příjemného chlapíka až k typickému produktu zrůdného systému, který např. svou ženu oslovuje Barbaro jen proto, že jeho šéf si není schopen zapamatovat její pravé jméno. |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
22 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Czech title |
Brazil |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
Divx |
| UPC |
037429138526 |
| Release Date |
13.7.1999 |
| Subtitles |
Czech |
| Packaging |
CD |
| Audio Tracks |
English |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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