Fear and Desire (1953)

19531h 10mdir. Stanley KubrickUnited Stateswar filmadventure film

With Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith, David Allen

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

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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.

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