Fear and Desire (English Subtitled)

Anti-war

The story is set during a war between two unidentified countries. An airplane carrying four soldiers from one country has crashed six miles behind enemy lines. The soldiers come upon a river and build a raft, hoping they can use the waterway to reach their battalion.

As they are building their raft, they are approached by a young peasant girl who does not speak their language. The soldiers apprehend the girl and bind her to a tree with their belts.

The youngest of them, Sidney, is left behind to guard the girl. He starts to talk to her, but as she doesn't understand him, he descends into a state of delirium. When he unbelts her, believing she will embrace him, she tries to escape and Sidney shoots her dead.

Mac, another of the four soldiers, finds the dead girl and watches as Sidney runs off towards the river. Mac persuades the commander, Lt. Corby, and his friend Fletcher to let him take the raft for a solo voyage, in connection with a plan to kill an enemy general at a nearby base. Mac distracts the general's guards by shooting at them while on the raft and is wounded.

While this is happening, Fletcher and Corby successfully infiltrate the base, and the enemy general is killed. After killing the general, they use an enemy plane to escape to their home base.

After landing, they talk and eat with their own general, and return to the river to await Mac. Sitting there, they philosophize about war and how no man is made for it, before finding the raft floating downriver, with a dying Mac and a delirious Sidney. (Wikipedia)

Movie Info

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Howard Sackler
Produced by: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith
Narrated by: David Allen
Cinematography: Stanley Kubrick
Edited by: Stanley Kubrick
Music by: Gerald Fried

Release dates: August 1952, Venice Film Festival (premiere), March 31, 1953 (New York City), April 1, 1953 (U.S.)
Running time: 61 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English, English subtitled

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