On Friday, April 13, in Connecticut on the 87th year of life, the world-famous film director Milos Forman.
The author of cult films "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Hair", "Amadeus", "Ragtime" for his career gathered almost all the important film awards in the world.
Milos Forman was born on February 18, 1932 in Chaslava (Czechoslovakia). During the Second World War, his father was sent to the concentration camp of Buchenwald for the dissemination of literature banned by the Nazis. Mother Milosha was sent to Auschwitz. Foreman's parents died in these concentration camps.
Foreman was brought up in a boarding school in Podebrady Castle. There, along with him, the future president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel.
Milos Forman's directorial debut took place in 1963. It was a painting "Black Peter". The film received the main prize of the film festival in Locarno. About a young Czech director started talking in Europe.
In 1967, Foreman took a caustic satirical picture of the "Firemen's Ball," which became the harbinger of the Prague Spring. The film reflects the mood of hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovakia. In 1968, Soviet troops were introduced into the republic. Foreman immigrated to the US.
In 1971, Milos Forman filmed his first film in America. It was the drama "Separation". The film won the Grand Prix of the Cannes International Film Festival.
Foreman's complete triumph was the drama "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" with Jack Nicholson in the lead role. The screen version of Ken Kesey's novel won five Oscar awards. She won in all the major categories: best film, best director, best script, best actor, best actress.
In 1979, Foreman filmed the musical "Hair". In the film, the theme of the war in Vietnam was sharply pronounced, the unwillingness of young Americans to participate in it.
Drama "Ragtime" (screen version of the eponymous novel by Edgar Doctorow) stirred up America. The film was nominated for eight Oscar awards, but received nothing..
But the next work of Foreman, the drama "Amadeus", in which he set out his version of the history of Mozart and Salieri, was awarded eight Oscars and many other kinovagrad. Milos received his second Academy Award as best director.
After "Amadeus" Foreman took pictures of "Valmont", "The people against Larry Flynt", "Man on the Moon", "Ghosts of Goya". The project "The Phantom of Munich" remained unfinished. This is reported by "Facts and Comments".