Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler’s findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes around Europe in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery.

The Boys from Brazil (1978)
  • Rating: (11,305 votes)
  • Tagline:If they survive...will we? »
  • Runtime:125 minutes
  • Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Countries:UK, USA
  • Actors:
    Dr. Josef Mengele
    Gregory Peck
    Ezra Lieberman
    Laurence Olivier
    Eduard Seibert
    James Mason
    Esther Lieberman
    Lilli Palmer
    Frieda Maloney
    Uta Hagen
    Barry Kohler (as Steven Guttenberg)
    Steve Guttenberg
    Sidney Beynon
    Denholm Elliott
    Mrs. Doring
    Rosemary Harris
    Henry Wheelock
    John Dehner
    David Bennett
    John Rubinstein
  • Genres:Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Robert Fryer
    executive producer  
    Stanley O'Toole
    producer  
    Martin Richards
    producer  
  • Plots: Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the U.S. in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery. Written by Rob Hartill
The Boys from Brazil
  • User's comment:Better than you'd think by conspracy-2

    Had I seen the film without reading the back of the video cassette, I would have enjoyed the film a lot more. But for some reason, a major plot point, revealed 1 1/2 hours into the film, is plainly written in black on orange. Since the movie moves in ever decreasing circles to reveal this secret quite efficiently, I don't see why the publicity department chose to sabotage it.

    Nevertheless, the plot is more plausible than it sounds when you try to describe it (which, as I have just said, should be avoided anyway), and the leads play beautifully. Especially incredible is Laurence Olivier as the doddering, worldly-wise jewish Nazi hunter, Dr. Lieberman. You'd never expect the frail form in this movie to be the same man as Hamlet. Gregory Peck also plays Dr. Joseph Mengele as suitably and calmly evil. A lesser actor would find playing the part of a Nazi Death Doctor, responsible for some of the worst atrocities in human history, a perfect excuse to ham it up and click into the black-hatted, moustache-twisting token villain.

    The less impressive acting of Steve Guttenberg overacting into a telephone and Jeremy Black with a really strange german accent as Erich Doring. This I can forgive. The ending is also comfortable and understated, with a moral instead of a huge explosion, as could have been expected in a 90's movie. Worth seeing, especially if you know nothing about the film.


  • Quotes: Ezra Lieberman: He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz, who killed 2.5 million people, experimented with children - Jewish and non-Jewish - using twins mostly, injecting blue dyes into their eyes to make them acceptable Aryans... amputating limbs and organs from thousands without anesthetics. Ezra Lieberman: You're not a guard now, madame! You are a prisoner! I may leave here today empty handed. But you... are not going anywhere. Gertrud: [Mengele has just knocked Mundt to the floor] Get a doctor!
  • Also known as: Los niños del Brasil (Argentina), Los niños del Brasil (Mexico - imdb display title), Los niños del Brasil (Peru), Los niños del Brasil (Spain), Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil (France), Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil (France - video title), Momci iz Brazila (Serbia), Momci iz Brazila (Yugoslavia - literal title, Serbian title), Pojkarna från Brasilien (Finland - imdb display title, Swedish title), Pojkarna från Brasilien (Sweden), The Boys from Brazil - Geheimakte Viertes Reich (Austria), The Boys from Brazil - Geheimakte Viertes Reich (West Germany), Anthropokynigito se dyo ipeirous (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Boys from the Brussel (Philippines - English title), Brasilian pojat (Finland), Brazíliai fiúk (Hungary), Chlopcy z Brazylii (Poland), Drengene fra Brasilien (Denmark - imdb display title), Exontosate ton dimio tou Auschwitz (Greece - reissue title), I ragazzi venuti dal Brasile (Italy), Meninos do Brasil (Brazil), Os Comandos da Morte (Portugal), The Boys from Brazil (West Germany),

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