Brazil

England

143 min

1985

Jonathan Pryce Terence Bayler Gorden Kaye Jack Purvis Howard Lew Lewis Ray Cooper Brian Miller Simon Jones Derek Deadman Bill Wallis Don Henderson Oscar Quitak Harold Innocent John Grillo Ralph Nossek David Gant Nigel Planer Roger Ashton-Griffiths John Flanagan Robert De Niro Katherine Helmond Ian Holm Bob Hoskins Michael Palin Ian Richardson Peter Vaughan Kim Greist Jim Broadbent Barbara Hicks Charles McKeown Derrick O'Connor Kathryn Pogson Bryan Pringle Sheila Reid Terry Gilliam

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.