After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.
Fear and Desire is of 1 hour(s) and 2 minute(s). It is Produced By: Stanley Kubrick Productions. It was released on 1953-03-31. It has the tagline: Trapped… 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl! It has an average vote of 5.45 on TMDB.
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