Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

• Umbrella-Rosenblum Film Production
• Virgin Films
• John Hurt
• Richard Burton
• Suzanna Hamilton
• Cyril Cusack
• Gregor Fisher
• James Walker
• Andrew Wilde
• David Cann