Brazil Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 131 mins
- Year produced:
- 1985
- Director:
- Terry Gilliam
- Cast:
- Jonathan Pryce
- Robert De Niro
- Katherine Helmond
Despite its title, Brazil isn’t set in sun-kissed South America – named after an old Latin dance tune, it actually takes place in the Britain of the not-too-distant future. And that Britain is as bleak as it gets – dark, joyless and run by a tyrannical government. Unsurprisingly, it all gets a bit much for clerk Sam Lowry – who finds an escape of sorts by constant daydreaming. One day, he spots a mistake in the mountain of paperwork he's forced to review – but when he tries to correct it, he gets sucked into a nightmare from which no amount of daydreaming can save him. For all the darkness of its themes, Brazil is an incredibly imaginative movie – long regarded as a head-spinning classic of British cinema.
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Fascinating facts
Director Terry Gilliam's daughter Holly has a small role in the film as the daughter of Jack Lint (played by Michael Palin) – also called Holly.