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“The Boys from Brazil” The terrifying true identity of the black-haired, blue-eyed “boys”

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“The Boys from Brazil” The terrifying true identity of the black-haired, blue-eyed “boys”

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“The Boys from Brazil” Synopsis

Paraguay, South America. Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, infiltrates a meeting of former Nazi party members and witnesses Josef Mengele, the chief doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Kohler immediately relays the information to Liberman, a veteran Nazi hunter in Vienna, but Liberman does not want to get involved. Immediately afterwards, Kohler, who recorded the meeting on tape, is brutally murdered by party members. The tapes contained the steps to rebuild Mengele's terrifying "Fourth Reich." It was a crazy conspiracy to kill civil servants around the age of 65 living in various parts of the world.



A suspense thriller about the remnants of Nazi Germany still alive somewhere on Earth. This slightly worn-out genre film hides a surprisingly little-known masterpiece. ``The Boys from Brazil'' (1978), originally titled ``The Boys From Brazil'', is one such film. The mistake is that the word boys is plural instead of boys, but I'll explain that in detail.


Based on the original work by Ira Levin, a popular American author known for `` Rosemary's Baby '' (1968), which was introduced on this site, there are many works such as `` Planet of the Apes '' (1968) and `` Patton Tank Army '' (1970). The film, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, who made popular films from the 1970s to the 1970s, begins with a tense scene from the beginning.


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The terrifying “Fourth Reich” reconstruction plan



In Asunción, the capital of Paraguay in South America, a young Nazi hunter called Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) infiltrates a meeting of former Nazi party members and witnesses Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the chief doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Kohler immediately relays the information to Liberman (Laurence Olivier), a veteran Nazi hunter in Vienna, but Liberman does not want to get involved. Immediately afterwards, Kohler, who recorded the meeting on tape, is brutally murdered by party members. The tapes contained the steps to rebuild Mengele's terrifying "Fourth Reich." There, at first glance, is a mysterious, yet carefully planned and insane plot to kill civil servants around the age of 65 living in various parts of the world.


Lieberman senses Mengele's presence on the other end of the phone, holding his breath to intimidate the caller, and sets out on a journey to investigate the purpose of the plan based on the clues left by the caller on his last phone call. This is the shocking point. Why did the men Mengele targeted all have to be civil servants around the age of 65? It was inevitable that they had a cold and abusive attitude toward the son they adopted. Furthermore, all of them had wives around the age of 42, and all of them doted on their sons. And then there is the shock when Lieberman's sons' "amazing appearance" leads to the true purpose of the plan. They are still vivid even today.


The boys all have black hair, blue eyes, and an irreverent attitude toward each other, something they all have in common, which simultaneously arouses Lieberman's sense of despair and his desire to fight.





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