George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
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Earnest, grave, bleak and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- John HurtWinston Smith
- Richard BurtonO'Brien
- Suzanna HamiltonJulia
- Cyril CusackCharrington
- Gregor FisherParsons
- James WalkerSyme
- Andrew WildeTillotson
- David CannMartin
- Peter FryeRutherford
- Roger Lloyd PackWaiter
Crew
- Michael RadfordDirector
- Michael RadfordScreenplay
- George OrwellNovel
- Roger DeakinsDirector of Photography
- Dominic MuldowneyOriginal Music Composer
- Tom PriestleyEditor
- Al ClarkProducer
- Robert DevereuxProducer
- Simon PerryProducer
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