When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in book form, he didn't imagine that more than four years would pass before Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock finally appeared in 1966. Not only in France but all over the world, Truffaut's Hitchcock interview developed over the years into a standard bible of film literature. In 1983, three years after Hitchcock's death, Truffaut decided to expand his by now legendary book to include a concluding chapter and have it published as the "Edition définitive". This film describes the genesis of the "Hitchbook" and throws light on the strange friendship between two completely different men. The centrepieces are the extracts from the original sound recordings of the interview with the voices of Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Helen Scott – recordings which have never been heard in public before.
일체의 문자정보가 금지된 미래사회를 배경으로 한 문명비판의 SF 영화. 주인공은 몰래 책을 숨기고 있는 사람들을 색출해 체포하고 책들을 불태우는 임무를 수행하는 소방수이다. 원제 '화씨 451도'는 종이가 불타는 온도를 뜻한다. 원작은 SF 작가 레이 브래드베리(Ray Bradbury)가 1953년 발표한 첫 장편소설이며, 프랑수아 트뤼포 감독에겐 첫 컬러 영화다.
