Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Cast

John Hurt

John Hurt

as Winston Smith

Richard Burton

Richard Burton

as O'Brien

Suzanna Hamilton

Suzanna Hamilton

as Julia

Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

as Charrington

Gregor Fisher

Gregor Fisher

as Parsons

James Walker

James Walker

as Syme

Andrew Wilde

Andrew Wilde

as Tillotson

David Cann

David Cann

as Martin

Peter Frye

Peter Frye

as Rutherford

Roger Lloyd Pack

Roger Lloyd Pack

as Waiter

Reviews

CharlesTheBold

Based on George Orwell's dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984. Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and fearing that England and America might take a similar turn, Orwell had painted a frightening portrait...

Peter McGinn

Do not watch this movie if you are feeling pessimistic or depressed, because the kind of catharsis won’t help you. Nineteen-eighty-four is a bleak movie based on a dark novel that paints a totalitarian world that really sucks. Although they don’t merely tell lies over and over until devotees believe...

CinemaSerf

This adaptation is a fairly faithful, if a little too abridged, version of the Orwellian story of absolute power, sedition and oppression but it's really John Hurt who makes this version stand out. His performance as the weedy "Winston" - a low level bureaucrat in the Ministry of Truth, is visceral ...

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