Brazil
Terry Gilliam
Sam Lowry, a model civil servant in a strange megalopolis, from yesterday, a lot of today and totally tomorrow, has problems with his mother and the all-powerful state. To top it all off, strange dreams take him off on Icarus wings in search of an inaccessible, evanescent young woman. Each time he is about to reach her their paths separate and the dream is cruelly interrupted.
With : Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond
Screenplay : Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
Image : Roger Pratt
Sound : Bob Doyle
Music : Michael Kamen
Editing : Julian Doyle
Decors : Norman Garwood
Screenplay : Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
Image : Roger Pratt
Sound : Bob Doyle
Music : Michael Kamen
Editing : Julian Doyle
Decors : Norman Garwood
Production : Arnon Milchan, Patrick Cassavetti
Apart from fellow Monty Python member Michael Palin for whom Brazil is the 8th collaboration with Terry Gilliam, other usuals worked with the director on this ambitious project. Actors Ian Holm, Jim Broadbent, Peter Vaughan and Katherine Helmond (who also worked with him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) had worked in Time Bandits, Gilliam's previous film, director of photography Roger Pratt had lit The Meaning of Life before Fisher King and 12 Monkeys and scriptwriter Charles McKeown played in The Meaning of Life and Time Bandits (before writing The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen). The manhandled hero of Brazil, Jonathan Pryce would work with Gilliam three years later in The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen. Composer Michael Kamen would also work with Gilliam for The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen and Fear and Loathing in Las Vega.