FILMOGRAPHY: fear and desire

filmography: FEAR AND DESIRE

Fear and Desire (1953) is a military action/adventure film by Stanley Kubrick. It is Kubrick’s first feature film and is also one of his least-seen productions. Kubrick served as the film's director, producer, cinematographer and editor.

The story is set during a war between two unidentified countries. An airplane carrying four soldiers from one country 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. One of the soldiers is mentally disturbed. He is left behind to guard the girl but when she escapes he fatally shoots her while shouting about William Shakespeare's The Tempest. A second soldier persuades the commander to take the raft for a solo voyage in connection with a plan to capture the headquarters of an enemy general at a nearby base. The remaining two soldiers successfully infiltrate the base, They locate and kill the top ranking general and one of his aides only to discover the dead men looked exactly like them.

Interesting note

The film was disowned by Kubrick, who saw the work of a fan and why he was not at all proud. This is the reason why he tried to buy all copies of it to destroy them.

Currently there are only two copies in the Museum of Photography George EastmanHouse in New York and found an original negative film lab in a former Puerto Rico.