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6.8/10 • 1.5K

1984-11-091h 53m

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George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Directors
Michael Radford
Editors
Tom Priestley

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  1. John Hurt

    John Hurt

    Winston Smith

  2. Richard Burton

    Richard Burton

    O'Brien

  3. Suzanna Hamilton

    Suzanna Hamilton

    Julia

  4. Cyril Cusack

    Cyril Cusack

    Charrington

  5. Gregor Fisher

    Gregor Fisher

    Parsons

  6. James Walker

    James Walker

    Syme

  7. Andrew Wilde

    Andrew Wilde

    Tillotson

  8. David Cann

    David Cann

    Martin

  9. Peter Frye

    Peter Frye

    Rutherford

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CharlesTheBold

Feb 22, 2017

Based on George Orwell's dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984. Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and fearing that England and America might take a similar turn, Orwell had painted a frightening portrait of the ultimate dictatorship, and the movie faithfully followed him. Some of the details were: (1) Continual surveillance, in this case carried out by cameras hidden inside television sets. (2) Decaying infrastructure and shoddy merchandise produced by the Party's monopoly of the economy. (3) A political language, NewSpeak, full of euphemisms and code words for the government's activities. (4) A brutal law-enforcement system in which being suspected even of disloyal THOUGHTS can bring barbaric punishment. The movie stars John Hurt as the beaten rebel, Susanna Hamilton as his mistress, and Richard Burton as the government official on whom they pin their hopes (like Orwell himself, Burton was fatally ill during the production and died before the movie's release)

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$8,430,492.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookdystopiafascismtotalitarian regimeanarchistbrainwashingorwelliantotalitarianismfuture visionfuture noirauthoritariangeorge orwell