Product Information
Amusing tale of a world where bureaucracy has gone mad, and all Ministry lackey Sam Lowry can do is fantasise about his ideal woman. Until, that is, he meets renegade freedom fighter and heating engineer Harry Tuttle...Product Identifiers
ProducerJoseph Grace, Arnon Milchan, Patrick Cassavetti
EAN5039036011891
eBay Product ID (ePID)3956883
Product Key Features
ActorRobert De Niro, Bob Hoskins, Barbara Hicks, Peter Vaughan, Michael Palin, Jonathan Pryce, Jim Broadbent, Kim Greist, Ian Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Film/TV TitleBrazil
DirectorTerry Gilliam
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageDanish\Finnish\Norwegian\Swedish
Run Time137 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen\16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2003
FormatDVD
FeaturesFeaturette What Is Brazil\Theatrical Trailer\Scene Access, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerMichael Kamen
Production DesignerNorman Garwood
Additional InformationBRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a frightened worker bee terrified of upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls in love with.<BR>The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular: giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochromatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive--one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.
ScreenwriterTom Stoppard, Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown
Art DirectorJohn Beard, Keith Pain
Costume DesignerJames Acheson
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Sound sourceDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
EditorJulian Doyle
Movie/TV TitleBrazil
Director of PhotographyRoger Pratt