Fahrenheit 451 [videorecording (DVD)] / an Enterprise-Vineyard production ; screenplay by François Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard ; produced by Louis M. Allen ; directed by François Truffaut.
Title and credits from opening spoken narration. Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser. Based on the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Originally produced as motion picture in 1966. A foreign film (Great Britain).
Summary:
In a future when books are banned and destroyed by the government, a fireman in charge of the burning becomes involved with a schoolteacher who flaunts the law by collecting and reading books.
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