Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)

Directed by

Rudolph Cartier

Genre

drama, science fiction, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man named Winston Smith lives under a totalitarian regime where the government controls every aspect of life. He begins a secret rebellion by writing in a diary and having an affair with a coworker.

bleaktenseunsettlingclaustrophobicdisturbinggrimbrooding

What happens

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television as part of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre on 12 December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed subversive nature and its graphic depiction of totalitarianism. It starred Peter Cushing (as Winston Smith), Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence and André Morell. Described as television's first "watercooler moment" by The Telegraph, the adaptation was watched by seven million people in the UK. In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to determine the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four was ranked in seventy-third position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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