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Fahrenheit 451
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Fahrenheit 451

Francois Truffaut

Francois Truffaut
Jean-Louis
Richard

Lewis M. Allen

Nicolas Roeg

Thom Noble

Universal
Vineyard Film
Enterprise

1966

112 min.

English

English

Drama / Sci-Fi

1.85:1
Cast:
Oskar Werner
Julie Christie
Cyril Cusack
Anton Diffring
Jeremy Spenser
Alex Scott
Summary:
Montag (Werner) is a fireman, in charge not of putting out fires, but of burning books, which are forbidden. He meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. He himself begins reading, consuming the books he is sworn to destroy. He is forced into the life of a fugitive. Choosing between his conformist wife and the school teacher, between safety and comfort, and intellectual freedom.
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Comments:
The film about an anti reading / anti book culture interestingly has no text. All the credits are announced as opposed to written. The only text appears as the banned written material.
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