The Boys from Brazil (1978)-SiLvErDuSt

The Boys from Brazil (1978)-SiLvErDuSt

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)



Gregory Peck ... Dr. Josef Mengele



Laurence Olivier ... Ezra Lieberman



James Mason ... Eduard Seibert

Lilli Palmer ... Esther Lieberman

Uta Hagen ... Frieda Maloney



Steve Guttenberg ... Barry Kohler (as Steven Guttenberg)

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

Format : AVI

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave

File size : 701 MiB

Duration : 2h 4mn

Overall bit rate : 784 Kbps

Writing application : Nandub v1.0rc2

Writing library : Nandub build 1853/release



Video

Format : MPEG-4 Visual

Codec ID : DIV3

Codec ID/Hint : DivX 3 Low

Duration : 2h 4mn

Bit rate : 643 Kbps

Width : 640 pixels

Height : 352 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16/9

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Resolution : 24 bits

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.119

Stream size : 575 MiB (82%)



Audio

Format : MPEG Audio

The film follows the attempts of aging Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) to discover and thwart a diabolical plan by surviving Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) to clone Adolf Hitler.



When well-intentioned young Barry Kohler stumbles upon a secret sect of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay, he alerts Ezra Lieberman by phone. Lieberman is well aware that Dr. Mengele is alive and in hiding, but is highly skeptical otherwise.



Kohler is discovered and killed. Lieberman begins following the trail of the Nazis, traveling throughout Europe and North America to investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of civil servants. He meets several widows and is amazed to find an uncanny resemblance in their adopted, black-haired, blue-eyed sons.



Lieberman's investigations unnerve Mengele's superiors, who demand that he abort his scheme. But the doctor has spent twenty years pursuing his plans, having acquired skin and blood samples from Hitler to use as DNA in a plan to recreate the Führer body and soul and to fulfill the aims of the Third Reich. For him it is now or never. Mengele ends up traveling to rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where one of the young Hitler clones lives on a farm. There he murders the boy's father, a dog breeder, and lies in wait for Lieberman, who is on his way.



They fight savagely until Mengele gains the upper hand. Mengele then taunts Lieberman with his hopes of turning the world into one run by Hitler clones. With one desperate lunge, Lieberman reaches the closet where the dogs are held and turns them loose. The dogs corner Mengele. At that point, young Bobby arrives home from school. It is Mengele's first look in person at one of his "boys". Bobby can tell from the carnage that something is amiss. Lieberman tells him that Mengele has killed his father and to notify the police. Bobby sets the pack of vicious Doberman dogs on Mengele, relishing his bloody death and avenging his father's death.



Lieberman is encouraged by fellow Nazi hunters to expose the scheme and turn over a list identifying the names and whereabouts of the other "boys from Brazil" from around the world, so that they can be systematically killed before growing up. But they are mere children, in Lieberman's opinion, so he destroys the list. The film ends with Bobby happily developing photos he took during the dog attack.