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2001 Festival programme.
Fahrenheit 451
Director:François Truffaut
Cert:12 Year: 1966 Length:112mins
Country:UK Language:English
Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring.
Truffaut's remarkable adaptation of Ray Bradbury's sci-fi novel about an alarming future where books are banned: they make people unhappy and burn at the temperature of the title. We witness the fireman, Montag (Werner), torn between his wife and a dissident teacher (both played by Christie) and his choices in the eternal search for happiness.
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