Fear and Desire

Fear and Desire

1953 · 62 min · EN · NR · 5.4 (560 votes)
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · Starring Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Stephen Coit, Virginia Leith, David Allen · Music Gerald Fried

“Trapped… 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!”

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After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

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A stark, philosophical examination of the human condition under duress. It feels like a grim, existential descent into the primal nature of survival, where the lines between humanity and brutality blur in the face of overwhelming conflict.

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