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| Director |
Michael Radford |
| Writing Credits |
based on novel by George Orwell
screenplay by Michael Radford, Jonathan Gems
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| Genre |
Futuristic Science Fiction |
| Runtime and Misc |
110 minutes; Color |
| Synopsis |
Hurt is Winston Smith, the doubter who turns to self-expression (his diary) and then love, out of boredom with the ways of Big Brother before being re-educated by Burton and left to live out his life as a wreck, and Hamilton the obscure object of his desire.
This version is superior to Anderson's 1956 version, but, like the older movie, reduces what was intended as a savage satire on the growth of authoritarianism. What was a political work was turned into a melodrama.
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| Cast |
John Hurt
Richard Burton
Suzanna Hamilton
Cybil Cusack
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| Year |
1984 |
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