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Post by ScreenHead One on May 30, 2024 7:28:58 GMT -6
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Post by ScreenHead One on May 30, 2024 7:48:45 GMT -6
*1984 aka Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
7.1 Rating 113 min
In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. Follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime's overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level.
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Release: Oct 10, 1984
Based on: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Director: Michael Radford
Production: Virgin, Virgin Benelux, Umbrella-Rosenblum Films Production
Cast:
John Hurt as Winston Smith
Rupert Baderman as Young Winston Smith
Richard Burton (his last performance) as O'Brien
Suzanna Hamilton as Julia
Cyril Cusack as Mr. Charrington
Gregor Fisher as Parsons
James Walker as Syme
Andrew Wilde as Tillotson
Merelina Kendall as Mrs. Parsons
John Boswall as Emmanuel Goldstein
Phyllis Logan as Telescreen Announcer
Roger Lloyd-Pack as Waiter
Bob Flag as Big Brother
Pam Gems as the Washerwoman
Pip Donaghy as Inner Party Speaker
Janet Key as the Instructress
Hugh Walters as Artsem Lecturer
Shirley Stelfox as the Prostitute
Matthew Scurfield and Garry Cooper as Guards
Rolf Saxon as Patrolman
It is a reasonably faithful adaptation of the novel and was critically acclaimed. Many of the film's scenes were shot on the actual dates mentioned in the novel. For example, the scene in which Winston Smith writes the date "April 4, 1984" in his diary was filmed on April 4, 1984.
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Post by ScreenHead One on May 30, 2024 8:07:09 GMT -6
*1984 (1956)
6.9 Rating
90 min
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
In the mid-1960s, a nuclear war and devastation of Earth gave rise to three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. By 1984, London, with its bomb-proof ministry, is designated as the capital of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, controlled by one all-powerful Party, embodied by the figurehead Big Brother. In the spring of 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the semi-elite Outer Party, encounters Julia, a woman he suspects may be a member of the Thought Police. Winston returns to his apartment, where an electronic surveillance eye examines the contents of his briefcase. Smuggling a small black diary past the eye, Winston begins to write down the subversive thoughts he fears to say aloud.
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: Mar 6, 1956
Based on: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Director: Michael Anderson
Production: Holiday Film Productions, Columbia Pictures
Cast:
Edmond O'Brien as Winston Smith
Michael Redgrave as O'Connor
Jan Sterling as Julia
David Kossoff as Charrington
Mervyn Johns as Jones
Donald Pleasence as Parsons
Carol Wolveridge as Selina
Ernest Clark as Outer Party Announcer
Patrick Allen as Inner Party Official
Michael Ripper as Outer Party Orator
Ewen Solon as Outer Party Orator
Kenneth Griffith as Prisoner
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Post by ScreenHead One on May 30, 2024 8:18:43 GMT -6
*1984 (2023)
6.1 Rating 132 min
A totalitarian regime governs society, restricting freedoms. Propaganda and surveillance are omnipresent. A mathematician engages in a forbidden relationship and joins a resistance movement against the oppressive ruling party.
Country: Finland, Russia
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Release: Nov 15, 2023
Based on: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Director: Diana Ringo
Production: AElita Productions
Cast:
Aleksandr Obmanov as Mathematician D503
Vladimir Ivaniy as Prisoner E202
Aleksey Sharanin as Philologist C340
Diana Ringo as Fiction department employee I-330
Evgeniy Kazak as Concert host
Ilya Yaroslavtsev as Party Member
Viktor Korovin as Medical assistant
Sergei Nikitin as Engineer R-13
Ilya Droznin as Prison guard
Anton Biryukov as Enemy of the people L723
Vladislav Kuvitsyn as Younger doctor
Sergey Budanov as Older doctor
Dima Rubin as Inner Party Official
Sergei Khrustalyov as Inner Party Official
Aleksei Shamayev as Minister of the United State
Maksim Shilov as Police officer
The film is the third feature film adaptation of the novel 1984 by George Orwell. It is dedicated to the 120th birth anniversary of George Orwell.
When writing the screenplay, Ringo was also influenced by the novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which served as inspiration for George Orwell when he was writing 1984.
Orwell praised the novel We, of which he also wrote a review in 1946. We has a similar plot and atmosphere as the novel 1984.
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