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The Boys from Brazil

Year:

1978

Duration:

125 min | West Germany:100 min

Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Franklin J. Schaffner

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 7 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1978-10-12

Filming Locations: Kölnbrein Dam, Austria

Earnings

Budget: $12,000,000

Gross: $19,000,000 (USA) Rentals $7,600,000 (USA)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jeremy Black

The Boys from Brazil

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 (as Steven Guttenberg)

Denholm Elliott

Sidney Beynon

Rosemary Harris

Mrs. Doring

John Dehner

Henry Wheelock

John Rubinstein

David Bennett

Anne Meara

Mrs. Curry

Bruno Ganz

Professor Bruckner

Walter Gotell

Mundt

David Hurst

Strasser

Wolfgang Preiss

Lofquist

Michael Gough

Mr. Harrington

Joachim Hansen

Fassler

Sky du Mont

Hessen (as Guy Dumont)

Carl Duering

Trausteiner

Linda Hayden

Nancy

Richard Marner

Doring

Georg Marischka

Gunther

Günter Meisner

Farnbach

Prunella Scales

Mrs. Harrington

Raul Faustino Saldanha

Ismael

Jürgen Andersen

Kleist (as Jurgen Anderson)

Mervyn Nelson

Stroop

David Brandon

Schmidt

Monica Gearson

Gertrud

Wolf Kahler

Schwimmer

Gerti Gordon

Berthe

Joseph Oliveira

German Newspaper Boy (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Gregory Peck replaced George C. Scott. Scott was cast as Mengele but pulled out before principal photography began.

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In the spanish dubbing, Mengele was named "Mengela".

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Playing a Nazi in this 20th Century Fox film was James Mason who had been well-known for portraying General Rommel in Fox's earlier The Desert Rats (1953) and The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951).

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Goofs

When David Bennett shows Lieberman the photographs of three Nazi agents, he mistakenly identifies Schwimmer as Kleist and Kleist as Schwimmer.

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At the end of the film, Lieberman is in the hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but there is an English-style TV on the wall.

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When Dr. Mengele attacks Munt at the Ball they both are rolling and fighting on a table full of food and pastries. Minutes later as Mengele attends Munt's wounds his clothes are impeccable.

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Quotes

Dr. Josef Mengele: He betrayed me, he betrayed you, he betrayed the Aryan race!

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Dr. Josef Mengele: You are born of the noblest blood in the world. You have it within you to fulfill ambitions one thousand times greater than those at which you presently dream, and you shall fulfill them, Bobby. You shall. You are the living duplicate of the greatest man in history.

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Dr. Josef Mengele: Are you, my SD Chief of Security, telling me that a project twenty years and millions of dollars in the making will be dropped because of this insignificant impotent old Jew?

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