The Boys from Brazil - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Boys from Brazil"

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Timing: 2:5 (125 min)

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He did his makeup and hairstyle for the role of Gregory Peck (1916-2003) in such a way that he was called an exact copy of Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1979), whose photographs had been secretly smuggled out of South America at the time.
The film's plot ends in 1979, shortly after the death of Josef Mengele. When filming ended, Mengele was still living in São Paulo (Brazil). Remarkably, the filmmakers managed to predict the month of the Nazi criminal's death. He died at the age of 67 on February 7, 1979, four months after the film's release. Mengele drowned in the ocean while swimming after suffering a stroke. The famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005), who served as the prototype for the character played by Sir Laurence Olivier, continued the search for Mengele for several more years. In 1985, German authorities tracked down Mengele's friends in Brazil, and then his grave, where he was buried under an assumed name. Mengele's remains were exhumed, and in 1992 it was definitively established that the grave contained him.

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