The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Country of Origin: UK / USA
Year of Production: 1978
Running Times: 123 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: ITC / Lew Grade / Producers Circle
Executive Producer: Robert Fryer
Producers: Stanley O'Toole, Martin Richards
Production Supervisor: Ron Carr
Production Manager: Dieter Meyer

SCRIPT
Script: Heywood Gould
Novel: Ira Levin

DIRECTION
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
1st Assistant Director: Jose Lopez Rodero
2nd Assistant Director: Terry Churcher
2nd Assistant Director (Austria): Marijan Vajda
Assistant Director (Portugal): João Severino
Assistant Directors (USA): Mike Jordan, Paul Esposito

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Henri Decae
Camera Operator: Jimmy Devis
Camera Operator (USA): Bob Puglisi
Assistant Camera: Colin Davidson, Dewi Humphries
Assistant Camera (USA): Theodore Hauser, Ed Irvins
Gaffer: Jack Coggins
Stills: Bert Cann
Stills (USA): Michael Ginsburg
Cameras and Lenses: Panavision
Labs: DeLuxe; Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Robert E. Swink
Assistant Editor: Dennis Wooley
Apprentice Editor: Jenny Schaffner

MUSIC
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Song: Jerry Goldsmith, Hal Shaper (We're Home Again)
Song Performed By: Elaine Paige (We're Home Again)
Orchestrator: Arthur Morton
Music Editor: Len Engel
Music Recorded At: Anvil Film and Records Group

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Derek Ball
Supervising Sound Mixer: Don Bassman
Boom Operator: Ken Nightingall
Re-Recording Mixers: Richard Overton, Richard Weaver
Re-Recording Facilities: Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, Hollywood
Sound Editors: Edward Rossi, Richard Sperber, William Hartman
Dialogue Editor: Godfrey Marks
Sound Assistant: Bill Barringer

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Bill Lodge, Christopher Tucker
Hair: Ronnie Cogan, Patrick Grant
Costume Designer: Anthony Mendleson
Wardrobe Master: Richard Pointing
Wardrobe Mistress: Rebecca Breed

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Roy Whybrow

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Opticals: Pacific Title

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Gil Parrondo
Art Director: Peter Lamont
Art Director (USA): Steve Hendrickson
Assistant Art Director (Austria): Thomas Ricabona
Set Decorator: Vernon Dixon
Construction Manager: Michael Murchan

OTHER CREW
Continuity: Pamela Carlton
Production Accountants: John Sargent, Peter Lancaster
Production Assistant (USA): Francis Nugent
Production Assistants (Portugal): David Quintas, Tish Oulman
Assistants To Producer: Ann Ford, Mary Richards
Production Secretary: Jean Walter
Production Secretary (Austria): Ilse Schwarzwald
Transportation Manager: Gerhard Rupp (uncredited)
Accent Coach: Marcella Markham
Publicist: Hunt Downs
Publicity Assistant: Cecilia Peck
Public Relations (Portugal): Fernando Pessa, Simone Pessa
Technical Advisor: Dr Derek Bromhall

LOCATIONS
Locations: Austria; England, UK; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; Portugal; USA
Location Manager: Scott Wodehouse
Location Manager (USA): Tony Cerbone
Location Manager (Austria): Arie Bohrer
Location Manager (Portugal): Frederico Muller
Portugese Location Liaisons: Fernando Pessa, Simone Pessa

STUNTS
Stunts: Del Baker, Dinny Powell, Eddie Powell

CASTING
Casting: Alixe Gordin
London Casting: Maude Spector
Vienna Casting: Renate Arbes

CAST
Gregory Peck (Dr Josef Mengele)
Laurence Olivier (Ezra Lieberman)
James Mason (Eduard Seibert)
Lilli Palmer (Esther Lieberman)
Uta Hagen (Frieda Maloney)
Steven Guttenberg (Barry Kohler)
Denholm Elliott (Sidney Beynon)
Rosemary Harris (Mrs Doring)
John Dehner (Henry Wheelock)
John Rubinstein (David Bennett)
Anne Meara (Mrs Curry)
Jeremy Black (Jack Curry / Simon Harrington / Erich Doring / Bobby Wheelock)
Bruno Ganz (Professor Bruckner)
Walter Gotell (Mundt)
David Hurst (Strasser)
Wolfgang Preiss (Lofquist)
Michael Gough (Mr Harrington)
Joachim Hansen (Fassler)
Guy Dumont (Hessen)
Carl Duering (Trausteiner)
Linda Hayden (Nancy)
Richard Marner (Doring)
Georg Marischka (Gunther)
Günter Meisner (Farnbach)
Prunella Scales (Mrs Harrington)
Raul Faustino Saldanha (Ismael)
Jurgen Andersen (Kleist)
Mervyn Nelson (Stroop)
David Brandon (Schmidt)
Monica Gearson (Gertrud)
Wolf Kahler (Schwimmer)
Gerti Gordon (Berthe)

PLOT SUMMARY

Young Nazi hunter Barry Kohler stumbles upon a group of former SS officers, led by the notorious Dr Josef Mengele, in Paraguay. Kohler enlists the help of a more experienced Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, who uncovers a horrific plot to clone Adolf Hitler and establish the Fourth Reich.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Video Distributors: Fox Video; Magnetic Video
Laserdisc Distributors: Pioneer Special Edition (PSE-96-079); CBS Fox (9002-80); Fox Video; Image Entertainment Inc
DVD Distributor: Artisan Entertainment (60748)

Argentina
Rating: 18

Finland
Rating: K-18

France
Rating: -16

Norway
Rating: 18

Sweden
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R

1978
National Board of Review, USA
Best Actor (Laurence Olivier) – winner (tied with Jon Voight for Coming Home (1978))

1979
Academy Awards, USA
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Laurence Olivier) - nominated
Best Film Editing (Robert Swink) - nominated
Best Music, Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith) - nominated

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA (Saturn Awards)
Best Actor (Laurence Olivier) - nominated
Best Director (Franklin J. Schaffner) - nominated
Best Music (Jerry Goldsmith) - nominated
Best Science Fiction Film - nominated
Best Supporting Actress (Uta Hagen) - nominated
Best Writing (Heywood Gould) - nominated

Golden Globes, USA
Best Motion Picture Actor: Drama (Gregory Peck) - nominated

1978
October
5: USA – theatrical release

1979
April
6: Portugal – theatrical release
27: Finland – theatrical release

May
21: Sweden – theatrical release

1982
April
12: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (Thames Television))

1985
September
12: West Germany – theatrical release

1997
March
18: USA - laserdisc release (Pioneer Special Edition (PSE-96-079))

1999
December
14: USA - DVD release (Artisan Entertainment (60748))
12: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)

2002
April
28: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)

If they survive... will we?

Brasilian pojat – Finnish title
Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil – French title
Chlopcy z Brazylii – Polish title
Os Comandos da Morte – Portugese title
Los Niños de Brasil – Argentinian title
Los Niños del Brasil – Spanish title
Pojkarna från Brasilien – Swedish title
I ragazzi venuti dal Brasile – Italian title

MAGAZINES

American Film: a Journal of the Film and Television Arts vol.3 no.9 (July / August 1978) pp.12-15, 52-54 (USA)
article (Lord Laurence Olivier as Nazi hunter by Bernard Drew)

Cinefantastique vol.8 no.1 (Winter 1978) p.22 (USA)
review

DGA Magazine vol.22 no.4 (1997) pp.70-71 (USA)
review (Blood and guts, and action by Ted Elrick)

Film and History vol.32 no.2 (2002 pp.38-47 (USA)
illustrated article

Film Review vol.28 (July 1978) p.35 (UK)
review

Films and Filming vol.25 no.5 (February 1979) pp.9-11 (UK)
illustrated article

Films and Filming vol.25 no.7 (April 1979) pp.29-30 (UK)
review (by Gordon Gow)

Films Illustrated vol.8 no.90 (February 1979) pp.214-215 (UK)
review (by David castell)

Hollywood Reporter vol.253 no.22 (25 September 1978) pp.3, 21 (USA)
note

Hollywood Reporter vol.285 no.41 (19 February 1985) p.26 (USA)
credits, review

The Listener vol.101 no.2603 (22 March 1979) p.428 (UK)
review

Literature / Film Quarterly vol.7 no.4 (1979) pp.322-324 (USA)
article

Montage no.44 (1979) pp.29-30 (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.46 no.543 (April 1979) pp.68-69 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review (by Richard Combs)

Screen International no.112 (5 November 1977) p.12 (UK)
credits

Screen International no.119 (24 December 1977) p.15 (UK)
note

Screen International no.181 (17 March 1979) p.19 (UK)
review

Sight and Sound vol.10 no.4 (April 2000) p.65 (UK)
video review

Variety no.27 (September 1978) p.20 (USA)
credits, review (by Har)

book into film, clones, cloning, detectives, eugenics, genetic engineering, hitler, human duplication, jungles, nazis

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008