I Live in Fear(1955)

movie - first aired/released 1955-11-22 - audience 7.3

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.