John Hurt

Richard Burton

Suzanna Hamilton

Cyril Cusack

Gregor Fisher

James Walker

Andrew Wilde

David Cann

Peter Frye

Roger Lloyd Pack

David Trevena

Anthony Benson

Phyllis Logan

Garry Cooper

Rupert Baderman

Corinna Seddon

Martha Parsey

Merelina Kendall

P.J. Nicholas

Lynne Radford

Pip Donaghy

Shirley Stelfox

Janet Key

Hugh Walters

John Hughes

Robert Putt

Christine Hargreaves

Matthew Scurfield

John Golightly

Rolf Saxon

Ole Oldendorp

Eddie Stacey

Norman Bacon

John Foss

Carey Wilson

Mitzi McKenzie

Pam Gems

Joscik Barbarossa

John Boswall

Bob Flag

Keith Gale

Annie Lennox

Lucien Morgan

Michael Munn

Jason Savage

Fred Wood

Dominic Muldowney

Robert Devereux

Marvin J. Rosenblum

Simon Perry

Tom Priestley

Michael Radford

Roger Deakins

Al Clark

Gina Rosenblum

George Orwell

Mark Raggett

John Allenby

Eddie Andres

Ene Watts

Amanda Grenville

Allan Cameron

Rebecca Howard

Grant Hicks

Martyn Hebert

Royce Baxter

Polly Moseley

Guido Reidy

Derek Holding

John Brady

Anna Dryhurst

Mary Hillman

Andrew Speller

Sue Sudbury

Philippe Pickford

Bryan Tilling

Paula Gillespie

Ian Scoones

Dick Pope

Stephanie Kaye

Debbie Scragg

Emma Porteous

John Davis

Sid Sutton

Fraser Taggart

Terry Walsh

Bill Weston

Terry Cade

David Keating

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Umbrella-Rosenblum Film Production

Virgin Benelux

Virgin Schallplatten

Virgin Films

20th Century Fox

Germany

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Based on George Orwell's  dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984.

Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and fearing that England and America might take a similar turn, Orwell had painted a frightening portrait of the ultimate dictatorship, and the movie faithfully followed him.  Some of the details were:

(1) Continual surveillance, in this case carried out by cameras hidden inside television sets.

(2) Decaying infrastructure and shoddy merchandise produced by the Party's monopoly of the economy.

(3) A political language, NewSpeak, full of euphemisms and code words for the government's activities.

(4) A brutal law-enforcement system in which being suspected even of disloyal THOUGHTS can bring barbaric punishment.

The movie stars John Hurt as the beaten rebel, Susanna Hamilton as his mistress, and Richard Burton as the government official on whom they pin their hopes  (like Orwell himself,  Burton was fatally ill during the production and died before the movie's release)

Peter McGinn

Do not watch this movie if you are feeling pessimistic or depressed, because the kind of catharsis won’t help you. Nineteen-eighty-four is a bleak movie based on a dark novel that paints a totalitarian world that really sucks. Although they don’t merely tell lies over and over until devotees believe them - instead they actually rewrite historical details in newspapers — still it bears a striking and chilling parallel to the current moment.

The acting is excellent and the sparing use of color is very effective, but I felt there were holes here and there details perhaps explained more fully in the novel. I want to read the book now for comparison, though I gather the film hovers close to its plot. It would be fascinating to know what the other societies were like, especially the ones they are alternately supposed to be at war with or allied to, but I imagine even the novel only deals with this thought-crime ridden hellhole.

It is worth watching for sure, but not at 2 a.m. after your partner has broken up with you and you have lost your job.

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