Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

1966 · 113 min · EN · NR · 7.1 (1,075 votes)
Dir. François Truffaut · Starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell · Music Bernard Herrmann

What if you had no right to read?

DramaScience Fiction

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

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This is a quietly unsettling journey into a world stifled by enforced ignorance. It evokes a melancholic dread, pondering the fragility of thought and the weight of conformity with a deliberate, art-house sensibility. A visually stark and intellectually rich experience.

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