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This masterly adaptation of George Orwell’s chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the book’s prophetic dystopia. In a rubble-strewn surveillance state where an endless overseas war props up the repressive regime of the all-seeing Big Brother, and all dissent is promptly squashed, a profoundly alienated citizen, Winston Smith (thrillingly played by John Hurt), risks everything for an illicit affair with the rebellious Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), defiantly asserting his humanity in the face of soul-crushing conformity. Through vividly grim production design and expressionistically desaturated cinematography by Roger Deakins, Michael Radford’s 1984 conjures a bleak vision of postwar Britain as fascistic nightmare—a world all too recognizable as our own.
Original Release
12/31/1983
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Cast
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David Graham | Big Brother |
Anya Major | Heroine |
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Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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David Graham | Big Brother |
Anya Major | Heroine |
Producers
Name | Role |
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John Sculley | Executive Producer |
Jay Chiat | Producer |
Lee Clow | Producer |
Guy Day | Producer |