Brazil is screening as part of our Christmas programme and also in memory of the late playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Brazil was proposed by our member Noah Genockey.

Cast:
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm