Overview:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.| Status: | Released (1984-11-09) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 3 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $8,430,492 |
| Screen: | Michael Radford, George Orwell |
| Productions: | Atlantic Releasing Corporation, Umbrella-Rosenblum Film Production, Virgin Benelux, Virgin Schallplatten, Virgin Films, 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Crews
- 28898: Michael Radford - Screenplay - Writing
- 57268: Marvin J. Rosenblum - Executive Producer - Production
- 25633: Tom Priestley - Editor - Editing
- 15870: George Orwell - Novel - Writing
- 30209: Al Clark - Producer - Production
- 57266: Simon Perry - Producer - Production
- 57267: Gina Rosenblum - Executive Producer - Production
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Reviews
CharlesTheBold
Review text:
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 frig ....
Continue reading ->Peter McGinn
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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 ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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This adaptation is a fairly faithful, if a little too abridged, version of the Orwellian story of absolute power, sedition and oppression but it's really John Hurt who makes this version stand out. His performance as the weedy "Winston" - a low level bureaucrat in the Ministry of Tru ....
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