Miloš Forman

Born in 1932 in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. His parents were killed in concentration camps. Miloš studied film at Prague’s FAMU and debuted in 1964 with Audition. Recognition came with films such as Black Peter (1964), The Loves of a Blonde (1965), and The Firemen’s Ball (1967) that showed his skill at exposing life’s tragicomedies, great and small. The invasion by Warsaw Pact forces on Czechoslovakia in August 1968 found him in Paris, from which he immigrated to the US. His first American film, Taking Off (1971) won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes and his adaptation of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) was extremely successful and the winner of five Oscars, followed by Hair, Amadeus, Ragtime, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon.

Selected filmography

1964 Konkurs / Konkurs / Audition

1964 Czarny Piotruś / Cerný Petr / Black Peter

1965 Miłość blondynki / Lásky jedné plavovlásky / The Love of a Blonde

1967 Pali się, moja panno / Horí, má panenko / The Firemen’s Ball

1975 Lot nad kukułczym gniazdem / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1979 Hair

1984 Amadeusz / Amadeus

1996 Skandalista Larry Flynt / The People vs. Larry Flint

1999 Człowiek na księżycu / Man on the Moon