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The Boys from Brazil

on BBC One London

Thriller based on the Ira Levin bestseller, starring Gregory Peck
Laurence Olivier
More than three decades after the end of the Second World
War, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele , infamous for his barbaric experiments in genetics at
Auschwitz, hatches a plot from his hiding place in Paraguay to secure the destiny of the Aryan race. The plan, involving the murders of a large number of middle-aged men across
Europe, is put into effect. But a Jewish Nazi-hunter is already on Mengele's trail.
Director Franklin J Schaffner 1978)
SEE FILMS pages 37 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Gregory Peck
Unknown:
Laurence Olivier
Unknown:
Josef Mengele
Dr Josef Mengele:
Gregory Peck
Ezra Lieberman:
Laurence Olivier
Eduard Seibert:
James Mason
Esther Lieberman:
Lilli Palmer
Frieda Maloney:
Uta Hagen
Herta Doring:
Rosemary Harris
Bobby/Jack/Erich/Simon:
Jeremy Black
Barry Kohler:
Steve Guttenberg
David Bennett:
John Rubinstein
Mr Harrington:
Michael Gough
Nancy:
Linda Hayden
Professor Bruckner:
Bruno Ganz
Henry Wheelock:
John Dehner
Sidney Beynon:
Denholm Elliott
Mrs Harrington:
Prunella Scales
Farnbach:
Gunter Meisner
Schwimmer:
Wolf Kahler

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