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Boys From Brazil (1993 Documentary)
''The Boys from Brazil'' may refer to: * ''The Boys from Brazil'' (novel), a 1976 novel by Ira Levin * ''The Boys from Brazil'' (film), a 1978 film based on the novel, starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier and James Mason *''The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros'', a 2022 BBC documentary series {{DEFAULTSORT:Boys from Brazil, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boys From Brazil (novel)
''The Boys from Brazil'' is a 1976 thriller novel by American writer Ira Levin. It was made into a film of the same title that was released in 1978. Plot Yakov Liebermann is a Nazi hunter (loosely based on Simon Wiesenthal) who runs a center in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity, perpetrated during the Holocaust. The waning interest of the Western nations in tracking down Nazi criminals, and the failure of the bank where he kept his center's funds, has forced him to move the center to his own lodgings. Then, in September 1974, Liebermann receives a phone call from a young man in Brazil who claims he has just finished tape recording a meeting held by the so-called "Angel of Death", Dr. Josef Mengele, a concentration camp medical doctor who performed horrific experiments on camp victims during World War II. According to the young man, Mengele is activating the ODESSA for a strange assignment: sending out six Nazis (former '' SS'' officers) to kill 94 men liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boys From Brazil (film)
''The Boys from Brazil'' is a 1978 science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is a British-American co-production and is based on the 1976 novel of the same title by Ira Levin. It was nominated for three Academy Awards. Plot Ezra Lieberman, an aging Nazi hunter, learns of a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals and neo-Nazis holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay. Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is part of the organization. He leads a mysterious project to assassinate ninety-four aging, low-level, male civil servants in different countries throughout the world. Upon investigating several suspicious deaths of civil servants, Lieberman is amazed to find that the adopted sons of the dead men, now teenagers, share an uncanny resemblance, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |