Directed by:
Michael RadfordScreenplay:
Michael RadfordCinematography:
Roger DeakinsCast:
John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, Anthony Benson, Roger Lloyd Pack, Rolf Saxon, Annie Lennox, Phyllis Logan (more)VOD (3)
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This masterly adaptation of George Orwell’s chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the book’s bleak prophetic vision. In a rubble-strewn surveillance state where an endless overseas war props up the repressive regime of the all-seeing Big Brother, and all dissent is promptly squashed, a profoundly alienated citizen, Winston Smith (thrillingly played by John Hurt), risks everything for an illicit affair with the rebellious Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) in a defiant assertion of humanity in the face of soul-crushing conformity. Through vividly grim production design and expressionistically desaturated cinematography by Roger Deakins, Michael Radford’s 1984 conjures a dystopian vision of postwar Britain as fascistic nightmare—a world all too recognizable as our own. (Criterion)
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