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Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is Filmed

1956

In 1956 English director Michael Anderson directed 1984, a science fiction drama film based on the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, and starring Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, and Donald Pleasance.

 

This was the first cinema rendition of the novel. It was released on DVD in 2004.

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