Brazil

• 7.678 Comedy
• 1985-02-20
• 143 minutes mins

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Starring:

Jonathan Pryce (Sam Lowry) Robert De Niro (Harry Tuttle) Katherine Helmond (Mrs. Ida Lowry) Ian Holm (Mr. Kurtzmann) Bob Hoskins (Spoor) Michael Palin (Jack Lint) Ian Richardson (Mr. Warrenn) Peter Vaughan (Mr. Helpmann) Kim Greist (Jill Layton) Jim Broadbent (Dr. Jaffe)

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Writer:

Tom Stoppard Charles McKeown Terry Gilliam