Francois Truffaut directed the movie of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. This movie is a 1966 British Dystopian science fiction drama film directed by Francois Truffaut and starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack. Based on the 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which a fireman, whose duty it is to burn all literature, becomes a fugitive for reading. This was Truffaut's first colour film as well as his only English-language film.