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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1954 · 107 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Rudolph Cartier
- Starring
- Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, André Morell, Sydney Bromley, Leonard Sachs, Wilfrid Brambell
In a grim, totalitarian future, a low‑ranking Party employee begins to question the omnipresent authority of Big Brother. He falls in love with a fellow worker, and together they seek forbidden truths and covert ways to resist the regime, risking torture and death as they attempt to undermine the Party’s absolute control.
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