Brazil (New 4K Restoration)
Opens August 21, 2025
Thursday, August 21 | 7:00pm | SIFF Cinema Uptown
Thursday, August 28 | 7:00pm | SIFF Cinema Uptown
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.
In Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece, one of the great films of the 1980s, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Price) 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.
This cautionary tale has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler.
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Principal Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin
- Country: United Kingdom, USA
- Year: 1985
- Running Time: 143 min.
- Language: English