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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a 1984 movie based on the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The film was previously adapted in 1954 and 1956. This adaptation is written and directed by Michael Radford and stars John Hurt as Winston Smith a man living and working at rewriting history in the totalitarian state of Oceania, of which London is its capital. Smith commits the crime of falling in love with Julia (Suzanna Hamilton). The two try to escape "Big Brother's" invasive surveillance.

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