Fear and Desire (1953)
Genres: Drama, War
Cast: Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky
Fear and Desire is a 1952 American anti-war film directed, produced, and edited by Stanley Kubrick, and written by Howard Sackler. With a production team of fifteen people, the film, which originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival under the title Shape of Fear, was Kubrick's feature directorial debut. Though the film is not about any specific war, it was produced and released during the height of the Korean War.