Fear and Desire (1953)

Directed by

Stanley Kubrick

Genre

drama film, action film, war film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

60h 46m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 545 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four soldiers are stranded behind enemy lines and must survive in a hostile wilderness. They confront fear, violence, and the absurdity of war.

tensebleakunsettlingatmosphericsparsephilosophicalslow-burn

What happens

Fear and Desire is a 1952 American independent anti-war film directed, produced, and edited by Stanley Kubrick in his directorial debut, and written by Howard Sackler. With a production team of fifteen people, the film originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival, in a side program, under the title Shape of Fear. Though the film is not about any specific war, it was produced and released at the height of the Korean War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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