The Boys from Brazil
If they survive… will we?
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
- 6.7
- 1978
- Released
- 2h 5m
Gregory Peck
Dr. Josef Mengele
Laurence Olivier
Ezra Lieberman
James Mason
Eduard Seibert
Lilli Palmer
Esther Lieberman
Uta Hagen
Frieda Maloney
Steve Guttenberg
Barry Kohler
Denholm Elliott
Sidney Beynon
Rosemary Harris
Mrs. Doring
John Dehner
Henry Wheelock
John Rubinstein
David Bennett
Anne Meara
Mrs. Curry
Jeremy Black
Jack Curry / Simon Harrington / Erich Doring / Bobby Wheelock
Bruno Ganz
Professor Bruckner
Walter Gotell
Mundt
David Hurst
Strasser
Wolfgang Preiss
Lofquist
Michael Gough
Mr. Harrington
Joachim Hansen
Fassler
Sky du Mont
Dietrich Hessen
Carl Duering
Trausteiner
Linda Hayden
Nancy
Richard Marner
Doring
Georg Marischka
Gunther
Günter Meisner
Farnbach
Prunella Scales
Mrs. HarringtonRaul Faustino Saldanha
IsmaelJürgen Andersen
Wolfgang KleistMervyn Nelson
StroopMonica Gearson
Gertrud
Wolf Kahler
Arno SchwimmerGerti Gordon
BertheJoseph Oliveira
German Newspaper Boy (uncredited)
Released
en
$12,000,000.00
$19,000,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #nazi
- #paraguay
- #mengele
- #doberman
- #nazi hunter
- #third reich (iii reich 1933-45)
- #human clone
- #josef mengele
Reviews
**_Imaginative conspiracy thriller involving escaped German war criminals_** A discredited Nazi-hunter in Vienna (Laurence Olivier) slowly learns of a plot to resurrect the Third Reich spearheaded by a mad geneticist, who’s conducting experiments in remote Paraguay (Gregory Peck). James Mason is also on hand as a colonel in the latter’s service. “The Boys from Brazil” (1978) was based on th
I recall the first time I saw this - aged ten, or so, and been terrified by the ending... Laurence Olivier is "Lieberman", a Nazi hunter who is given some detailed information from a very young Steve Guttenburg ("Kohler") that his long sought nemesis Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) is thriving in Paraguay - and that he has an intriguing ongoing scheme that could reignite the whole Nazi movement.