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MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Michael Radford
This masterly adaptation of George Orwell’s chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the book’s bleak prophetic vision. In a rubble-strewn surveillance state where an endless overseas war props up the repressive regime of the all-seeing Big Brother, and all dissent is promptly squashed, a profoundly alienated citizen, Winston Smith (thrillingly played by John Hurt), risks everything for an illicit affair with the rebellious Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) in a defiant assertion of humanity in the face of soul-crushing conformity. Through vividly grim production design and expressionistically desaturated cinematography by Roger Deakins, Michael Radford’s 1984 conjures a dystopian vision of postwar Britain as fascistic nightmare—a world all too recognizable as our own.
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Format: Blu-ray
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1.85:1
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English 1.0 PCM Mono
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English
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A
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1 Disc |
BD-50
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- New interviews with director Michael Radford and cinematographer Roger Deakins
- New interview with David Ryan, author of George Orwell on Screen
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Trailer
- An essay by writer and performer A. L. Kennedy
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