miércoles, 4 de julio de 2012

The Boys from Brazil (1978)




Dr. Josef Mengele, an infamous Auschwitz doctor, secluded several surrogate mothers in a Brazilian clinic and fertilized them with ova each carrying a sample of Hitler's DNA preserved since World War II. Ninety-four perfect clones of Hitler had then been born and sent to different parts of the world for adoption.
Lieberman, a man that discovered the complot, is encouraged by an American Nazi-hunter to expose Mengele's scheme to the world. Lieberman is asked to turn over the list identifying the names and whereabouts of the other "boys from Brazil" from around the world, so that they can be systematically killed before growing up to become bloody tyrants. Lieberman objects on the grounds that they are mere children. He burns the list before anyone can read it.
In the final scene, Bobby, one of the clones, is shown in his dark room, absorbed and excited by photographs he has taken of Mengele's body after it has been savaged by dogs. Bobby is unaware that, as a boy his own age, Adolf Hitler had a related interest as an amateur artist.


Trivia

  • The real Josef Mengele was still alive in Brazil while the movie was being made. He died shortly after ther movie's release
  • Bruno Ganz (who played Dr. Bruckner) played himself the role of Adolf Hitler several years later

  • The character Ezra Liebermann was called Yakov Liebermann in the original book
  • Gregory Peck felt his role as Josef Mengele was the only unsympathetic role he's ever made
  • After Kohler's death, you can see him blink in a scene afterwards.

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