| The Boys from Brazil | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | The Boys from Brazil |
| Director: | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Writers: | Heywood Gould |
| Producers: | Robert Fryer; Stanley O'Toole; Martin Richards |
| Composer: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Henri Decae |
| Editors: | Robert E. Swink |
| Production | |
| Production company: | Sir Lew Grade Producers Circle ITC Films |
| Distributed by: | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
| Released: | October 6th, 1978 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 125 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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The Boys of Brazil is an American feature film of the drama and science fiction genres. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a script written by Heywood Gould based on the novel by Ira Levin. It was produced by Sir Lew Grade, Producers Circle and ITC Films. It premiered as a sneak preview in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 19th, 1978. It was officially screened in the U.S. in Los Angeles, California on October 4th, 1978. It opened up nation-wide on October 6th, 1978. The premise of the movie involves a group of Nazis who escaped Nuremburg and have set themselves up in Paraguay in order to conduct genetic experiments in cloning.
Plot[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Gregory Peck | Doctor Josef Mengele |
| Laurence Olivier | Ezra Lieberman |
| James Mason | Eduard Seibert |
| Lilli Palmer | Esther Lieberman |
| Uta Hagen | Frieda Maloney |
| Steven Guttenberg | Barry Kohler |
| Denholm Elliott | Sidney Beynon |
| John Dehner | Henry Wheelock |
| John Rubinstein | David Bennett |
| Anne Meara | Mrs. Curry |
| Jeremy Black | Clones |
| Walter Gotell | Mundt |
| David Hurst | Strasser |
| Wolfgang Preiss | Lofquist |
| Michael Gough | Mister Harrington |
| Joachim Hansen | Fassler |
| Guy Dumont | Hessen |
| Carl Duering | Trausteiner |
| Linda Hayden | Nancy |
| Richard Marner | Doring |
| Georg Marischka | Gunther |
| Gunter Meisner | Farnbach |
| Prunella Scales | Mrs. Harrington |
| Raul Faustino Saldanha | Ismael |
| Jurgen Anderson | Kleist |
| Mervyn Nelson | Stroop |
| David Brandon | Schmidt |
| Monica Gearson | Gertrud |
| Wolf Kahler | Schwimmer |
| Gerti Gordon | Berthe |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Boys from Brazil redirects to this page.
External Links[]
- The Boys from Brazil at TCM
- The Boys from Brazil at IMDB
- The Boys from Brazil at Trakt TV
- The Boys from Brazil at Wikipedia
- The Boys from Brazil at Letterboxd.com