Fear and Desire (1953)
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Directors
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harper, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith
The story
thumb|thumbtime=7|The full version of Fear and Desire Fear and Desire opens with an off-screen narration by actor David Allen who tells the audience: There is a war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, nor one that will be, but any war. And the enemies who struggle here do not exist unless we call them into being.
Genres
Drama, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
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