These boys who came from Brazil ( The Boys from Brazil ) is a film américano-British carried out by Franklin J. Schaffner, left in 1978 according to the novel éponyme Ira Levin.

What follows reveals part of the intrigue

Synopsis

Vienna, Austria, the day before the Years 1980. Ezra Lieberman is a famous hunter of Nazis (inspired by Simon Wiesenthal) which lives with his/her sister in an old apartment. It receives one day the call of a young Jew, Barry Kohler, coming from the Paraguay. This last found the trace of many officers Nazis and thinks that a plot prepares. In spite of the recommendations of Lieberman which highly suggests to him leaving the country for its own security, Kohler decides more. After having discovered the villa where will be held a secret meeting, he bribes a young servant in order to place a microphone there. The stratagem functions.

The chief of this conspiracy is not other than macabre the Josef Mengele, former doctor of the death camp of Auschwitz, and sadly known for the pseudo-medical experiments which it carried out on the prisoners during the Second world war.

Mengele describes with its comparses the project of assassination in the two years of 94 civils servant throughout the world. All have as a common point to be fathers, sexagenarian and to have a wife much younger than them. These assassinations must pass for accidents.

While the Barry young person records the conversation, the microphone is surprised. He flees, joined his hotel, telephones Lierberman and makes him listen to the cassette right before being assassinated.

Old Ezra, initially dubitative, will carry out its survey! Thanks to the many press articles which transmits to him a friend to defer, it returns visit to the widows whose sexagenarian husband suddenly lost the life.

Which is not its astonishment when it meets, to thousands of kilometers of interval, the wire of these unhappy: they resemble each other milks for feature! Moreover, they all were adopted.

Whereas the murders are pousuivent, the curiosity and especially the notoriety of Lieberman throw into a panic the silent partners. They stop the project against the opinion of Mengele. Too much late! The hunter of Nazis discovers the horrible truth: these young boys scattered in America and Europe are the clones of Adolf Hitler! The goal? To establish, in the long term, 4th Reich.

Their revealed plot, the officers Nazis burn the house of Joseph Mengele, erase the traces but miss it by accuracy. This one already took the plane for the Canada in order to pousuivre its work and to eliminate encumbering it Jewish hunter. After having killed another father, the disaster doctor faces his old enemy who arrived on the entrefaits. A long fight follows stopped by the Doberman pinschers of the property. Bobby, the son of the house, enters at this time and orders with the dogs to attack. Shredded by these monsters, Mengele succumbs and thus makes it possible Ezra to still subtilize the list of the families in danger to finally destroying it.

Data sheet

  • Title: These boys who came from Brazil
  • original Titer: The Servant boys from Brazil
  • Realization: Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Scenario: Heywood Gould, according to the novel éponyme of Will go Levin
  • Production: Stanley O' Toole, Martin Richards and Robert Fryer
  • Budget: 12 million dollars (9,1 million euros)
  • Music: Jerry Goldsmith
  • Photography: Henri Decaë
  • Assembly: Robert Swink
  • Decorations: Gil Parrondo
  • Costumes: Anthony Mendleson
  • Country of origin: the United Kingdom, the United States
  • Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
  • Kind: Thriller
  • Lasted: 123 minutes
  • Comings out date: October 5th 1978 (the United States), May 30th 1979 (France)
  • Film prohibited with less than 16 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Around film

Distinctions

  • Price of the best actor for Laurence Olivier, by the National Board off Review in 1978.
  • Nomination with the Oscar of the best actor for Laurence Olivier, better music and better assembly, in 1979.
  • Nomination at the price of best realizer, science fiction film better, better scenario, better music, better actor for Laurence Olivier and best supporting role female for ATU Hagen, by the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror in 1979.
  • Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best actor for Gregory Peck in 1979.

External bonds

  • These boys who came from Brazil on Internet Movie Database
  • Critique DevilDead

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