Actors - The Boys from Brazil

Home > Listing Index > Actors > The Boys from Brazil (film)

	Actors - The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil was a 1978 thriller directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. The movie is loosely based on the novel The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin (and is not related to a 1993 film Boys from Brazil ).

Plot

In the movie, Josef Mengele clones Adolf Hitler several times over and attempts to have the boys each undergo the same childhood experiences and rearing that Hitler had, in order to re-create his psyche and breed a new "Hitler for the times" so as to re-establish the Nazi regime.

The movie follows the attempts of aging Nazi hunter Ezra Leiberman to discover and thwart Mengele's plan.

Principal cast

Gregory Peck
: Dr. Josef Mengele
Laurence Olivier
: Ezra Lieberman
James Mason
: Eduard Seibert
Lilli Palmer
: Esther Lieberman
Uta Hagen
: Frieda Maloney
Steve Guttenberg
: Barry Kohler
Denholm Elliott
: Sidney Beynon

Award nominations:

Academy Award for Best Actor
- Laurence Olivier
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama -Gregory Peck
Academy Award for Film Editing - Robert Swink
Academy Award for Original Music Score - Jerry Goldsmith

Miscellaneous

The character of Ezra Lieberman in Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil is modeled on the famous real life Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

The movie is particularly notable for its musical soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith.

Other science fiction movies which deal with the subject of cloning include Multiplicity, The Island
, and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for The Boys from Brazil (film) ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article The Boys from Brazil (film); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay