Resumo de Boys From Brazil

Doctor Mengele has summoned six former SS-men to a restaurant in Sao Paolo. They are selected to carry out a task of the highest importance. Forty-nine men from different countries, have to be killed. What the conspirators do not know is that a young man named Barry Koehler has bribed a waitress to plant a hidden tape recorder in the room. But Mengele gets the waitress to deceive Barry by giving her a large sum of money. The Nazis trace Barry to his hotel. They break into his room and slay him. The killings have meanwhile started and Liebermann racks his brain to find out what the victims may have in common to make them targets for the Nazis. A visit to one of the widows, Frau Döring, and the thirteen-year-old son teaches him nothing. When Liebermann goes to the United States for a speaking tour, he happens to get in touch with another woman whose husband was killed. He is astonished to find that her son is an exact duplication of the Döring boy, in appearance as well as behaviour, speech and age. This at last gives him a clue, for he remembers that twins were the subjects of Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp, where he tried to breed perfect Aryans. Liebermann discovers that the American boy was adopted through the agency of a German woman who was a guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp. Liebermann makes a deal with her, and she tells him that some thirteen years ago she arranged adoptions of boy babies supplied by a German organisation in Brazil. The scene shifts to Brazil where Mengele is infuriated when he hears that the bosses of his Nazi organisation have called the six killers back. The risk to the Nazis becomes too great as a result of Liebermann's activities. Determined to conclude the job, Mengele disguises himself and travels to the United States, where he intends to kill Liebermann as well as the remaining victims on the listing. Back in Vienna, a biology professor tells Liebermann that Mengele has evidently succeeded in making "mononuclear reproduction" work in human beings. The experiment must be to make replicas of Adolf Hitler himself. Because Liebermann realises that authorized action may take too long, he also contacts the "Young Jewish Defenders", a militant organisation led by rabbi Gorin. Gorin is eager to get at the Nazis and promises Liebermann all possible help. They agree to meet at the house of Henry Wheelock, who is one of the individuals to be killed. But Mengele got wind of Liebermann's plans and gets there first. He first impersonates Liebermann and kills Wheelock, and then impersonates Wheelock when Liebermann arrives. He tells Liebermann how the Führer allowed him to take half a litre of his blood and cutting of his skin, which Mengele used to manufacture replicas of Hitler. The boys will grow up to be exact Hitler replicas, physically as well as mentally and emotionally. When Liebermann tries to escape, he is shot and seriously wounded by Mengele, but the unexpected return home of Wheelock?s son saves him. (One of the Hitler replicas) Mengele tries to talk him over to his side, but the boy becomes convinced that Mengele is a dangerous lunatic and sets his father's murderous dogs on him. After Mengele's dead Gorin's men arrive on the scene and take Liebermann to hospital. Liebermann consults with Gorin about the steps to be taken with regard to the little Hitlers. Gorin insists that they should all be killed to protect the world, but Liebermann cannot find it in his heart to become a child-killer like Mengele. When his arguments fail to convince Gorin, he flushes the list of names through the toilet.

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