Fahrenheit 451

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.

Keywords

  • A Strange Future
  • Best Novels Adaptation
  • Best Novels Adaptation (home)
  • Escape to the 60's
  • Focus: François Truffaut
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • identity

Actors

  • Michaël Balfour
  • Frank Cox
  • John Rae
  • Jeremy Spenser
  • Anton Diffring
  • Fred Cox
  • Oskar Werner
  • Bee Duffell
  • Julie Christie
  • Anna Palk
  • Alex Scott
  • Judith Drinan
  • Yvonne Blake
  • David Glover
  • Caroline Hunt
  • Earl Younger
  • Ann Bell
  • Denis Gilmore
  • Cyril Cusack
  • Gillian Lewis

Director

  • François Truffaut

Timeless


1h 52min


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France
1966
Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.


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