Brazil (1985)

Ian Holm: Mr. Kurtzmann

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• Kurtzmann : [on Buttle]  You see? The population census has got him down as "dormanted." Uh, the Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as "deleted."

  Sam Lowry : Hang on.

  [goes to a computer terminal] 

  Kurtzmann : Information Retrieval has got him down as "inoperative." And there's another one - security has got him down as "excised." Administration has got him down as "completed."

  Sam Lowry : He's dead.

• Kurtzmann : Dead? That's awful. We'll never get rid of the bloody thing now!

• Kurtzmann : It's been confusion from the word go!

• Kurtzmann : Has anybody seen Sam Lowry?