Nineteen Eighty-Four

(1984)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 1,700 votes

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Year: 1984

Runtime: 120 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Michael Radford

Cast: Джон Хёрт, Richard Burton, Сюзанна Хэмилтон, Сирил Кьюсак, Грегор Фишер, James Walker, Andrew Wilde, David Cann, Peter Frye, Роджер Ллойд-Пак

Plot

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

Longing for freedom, the lowly bureaucrat of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith, summons up the courage to write down his unspoken desires in his little secret diary. Serving silently at the pleasure of the grim, autocratic hyper-state of Oceania, Smith knows that the English Socialist Party's supreme leader, the omnipotent Big Brother, watches his every move, condemning the already terrified people into a life of slavery. Under those dire circumstances--as the totalitarian government's suffocating stranglehold tightens more and more--Julia, another equally seditious party member, crosses paths with Winston, and a dangerous clandestine affair begins. Now, there's no turning back, and, sooner or later, the illicit couple will have to pay for its hideous crimes against the dictatorial state. What makes a good citizen?