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Fahrenheit 451 is a British film of genre Drama directed by François Truffaut released in USA on 14 november 1966 with Oskar Werner
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 november 1966
Length 1h52
Directed by François Truffaut
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating71%
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British Dystopian science fiction drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which a fireman, whose duty it is to burn all literature, becomes a fugitive for reading. This was Truffaut's first colour film as well as his only English-language film. At the 1966 Venice Film Festival, Fahrenheit 451 was nominated for the Golden Lion.
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In the future, a totalitarian government employs a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature, permitting them to search anyone, anywhere, at any time. One of the Firemen, Guy Montag (Oskar Werner), meets one of his neighbors, Clarisse (Julie Christie), a 20-year-old schoolteacher whose job is hanging by a thread due to her unorthodox views. The two have a discussion about his job, where she asks if he ever reads the books he burns. Curious, he begins to hide books in his house and read them, starting with Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. This leads to conflict with his wife, Linda (also played by Julie Christie), who is more concerned with being popular enough to be a member of The Family, an interactive television program that refers to its viewers as cousins.Actors
Oskar Werner
(Guy Montag)
Julie Christie
(Clarisse / Linda Montag)
Cyril Cusack
(Captain Beatty)
Mark Lester
(Second Schoolboy (uncredited))
Jeremy Spenser
(Man with the Apple)
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