Truffaut: Fahrenheit 451 [OV]

FR, 1966, R: François Truffaut mit Cyril Cusack, Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, 113 Min

Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451' Books are the enemy! That is why, in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, reading is strictly forbidden. The fire brigades sole mission is not to put fires out but to hunt down people who possess books and to reduce these objects to ashes.

Montag, a zealous fireman and a citizen who is respectful of institutions, comes across Clarisse, a young schoolteacher who causes him to have doubts about his job. Gradually he too discovers a love of books.

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