The Boys from Brazil (film)
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| Directed by | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Produced by |
Martin Richards Stanley O'Toole Robert Fryer |
| Screenplay by | Heywood Gould |
| Based on |
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin |
| Starring |
Gregory Peck Laurence Olivier James Mason |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
| Edited by | Robert Swink |
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ITC Entertainment
Producer Circle |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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125 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $19,000,000 $7,600,000 (rentals) |
The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Ira Levin, and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. He phones Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), an aging Nazi hunter living in Vienna, Austria, with this information. A highly skeptical Lieberman tries to brush Kohler's claims aside, telling him that it is already well known that Mengele is living in Paraguay.
Having learned when and where the next meeting to include Mengele is scheduled to occur, Kohler records part of it using a hidden microphone, but is discovered and killed while making another phone call to Lieberman. Before the phone is hung up with Lieberman on the other end, he hears the recorded voice of Mengele ordering a group of ex-Nazis to kill 94 men in different countries, including Austria, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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