Stanley Kubrick’s rarely seen, first-ever feature film has been restored by the Library of Congress and mastered in HD.

“FEAR AND DESIRE follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and bind her to a tree, where she is tormented by a mentally unbalanced soldier (future director Paul Mazursky). Before making their escape, the soldiers determine the location of an enemy base and formulate a plot to assassinate its commanding officer.”

You’ll be able to buy the DVD October 23rd. Peep a video of it after the jump.

via, werd