Brazil poster
Director Terry Gilliam
Screenplay Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown

Brazil

Tagline: It's only a state of mind.

Release Date: 1985-02-20

Duration: 143 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Robert De Niro
    Harry Tuttle
  • Jim Broadbent
    Dr. Jaffe
  • Michael Palin
    Jack Lint
  • Ian Holm
    Mr. Kurtzmann
  • Don Henderson
    First 'Black Maria' Guard
  • Jonathan Pryce
    Sam Lowry
  • Derek Deadman
    Bill - Dept. of Works
  • Katherine Helmond
    Mrs. Ida Lowry
  • Kim Greist
    Jill Layton
  • Peter Vaughan
    Mr. Helpmann