Instead, Deakins used a film processing technique called bleach bypass (originally created by Technicolor and Deluxe, but recreated for this production by Key) to create the distinctive washed-out look of the films colour visuals.

Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate.

Smith (Hurt) struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regimes overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level.

Smith resides in London, the capital city of the territory of Airstrip One, formerly England.

Winston works in a small office cubicle at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history in accordance with the dictates of the Party and its supreme leader, Big Brother.

Haunted by painful memories and restless desires, Winston keeps a secret diary of his private thoughts, thus creating evidence of his thoughtcrime.

However, he tries to do it undercover of the telescreens, to maintain his safety.

Their first meeting takes place in the remote countryside where they exchange subversive ideas before having sex.

Julia procures contraband food and clothing on the black market, and for a brief few months they secretly meet and enjoy an idyllic life of relative freedom and contentment together.

It is later revealed that their transgressions were recorded by a hidden telescreen in their room and that the proprietor of the pawn shop, Mr.

Charrington, is a covert agent of the Thought Police.

Winston and Julia are taken away to the Ministry of Love to be detained, questioned and rehabilitated separately.

There OBrien, a high-ranking member of the Inner Party, systematically tortures him.

For his final rehabilitation, Winston is brought to Room 101, where OBrien tells him he will be subjected to the worst thing in the world, designed specifically around Smiths personal phobias.

When confronted with this unbearable horror which turns out to be a cage filled with wild rats Winstons psychological resistance finally and irretrievably breaks down, and he hysterically repudiates his allegiance to Julia.

Now completely subjugated and purged of any rebellious thoughts, impulses, or personal attachments, Winston is restored to physical health and released.

While sitting at the chess table, Winston is approached by Julia, who was similarly rehabilitated.

They share a bottle of Victory Gin and impassively exchange a few words about how they have betrayed each other.

After she leaves, Winston watches a broadcast of himself on the large telescreen confessing his crimes against the state and imploring forgiveness from the populace.

It turned out that the rights were held by Marvin Rosenblum, a Chicago lawyer who had been trying on his own to get such a film produced.

The script was finished in three weeks.

The pawnshop exterior, a pub scene and a scene with a prostitute were filmed in Cheshire Street, in Londons East End, an area Orwell had visited and commented on in his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London.

The canteen interiors were filmed in a disused grain mill at Silvertown.

In contrast, the idyllic, dreamlike Golden Country, where Winston and Julia repair for their first tryst and which recurs in Winstons fantasies, was filmed in the southwest county of Wiltshire at a natural circle of hills called Roundway, near the town of Devizes.

The scenes on the train were shot on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.

The film shared a number of locations with Terry Gilliam s Brazil, which was filmed the same year.

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