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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Directed by Michael Radford
“George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.”
Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 1h 53m
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.
Cast
John Hurt
Richard Burton
Suzanna Hamilton
Cyril Cusack
Gregor Fisher
James Walker
Andrew Wilde
David Cann
Peter Frye
Roger Lloyd Pack
Crew
- Director
- Michael Radford
- Screenplay
- Michael Radford
- Novel
- George Orwell
- Director of Photography
- Roger Deakins
- Original Music Composer
- Dominic Muldowney
- Editor
- Tom Priestley
- Producer
- Al Clark, Simon Perry, Robert Devereux
Details
- Release date
- 1984-11-09
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Umbrella-Rosenblum Film Production, Virgin Films
- Budget
- $7,430,072
- Box office
- $8,430,492