Tribute to Michael Douglas / One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / USA 1975
Producer Michael Douglas showed considerable courage when he entrusted the rights to a film adaptation of the stage play based on Ken Kesey’s novel to a director from Eastern Europe who was, at the time, virtually unknown in the USA. Miloš Forman repaid him for this decision by delivering a fairy-tale success of a film that took home all five major Academy Awards. The strength of the drama set in a psychiatric hospital also lies in the fact that the escalating psychological duel between a rebellious patient and the institution’s despotic head nurse is a variation on Forman’s key theme – the clash of the free-thinking individual with the power of the ruling establishment. Both lead actors performed their roles of a lifetime here, while the movie marked a crowning achievement in the filmmaker’s career.
Zdena Škapová
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) was restored by the Academy Film Archive. Restoration funding provided by Teatro Della Pace Films with special thanks to Paul Zaentz.
133 min / Color, DCP
Director Miloš Forman
/ Screenplay Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben
/ Dir. of Photography Haskell Wexler, Bill Butler
/ Music Jack Nitzsche
/ Editor Richard Chew
/ Art Director Edwin O'Donovan
/ Producer Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
/ Production Fantasy Films
/ Cast Jack Nicholson, Michael Berryman, Louise Fletcher, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Danny DeVito
/ Sales Teatro Della Pace Films
Miloš Forman (1932, Čáslav, Czechoslovakia – 2018, Danbury, Connecticut). Selected filmography: Black Peter (1963), A Blonde in Love (1965), The Firemen's Ball (1967), Taking Off (1971), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Hair (1979), Amadeus (1984), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Man on the Moon (1999), Goya's Ghosts (2006).
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