Director
Miloš Forman
February 18, 1932 · Čáslav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; February 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars and Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism. The film was initially shown in theatres in his home country in the more reformist atmosphere of the Prague Spring. However, it was later banned by the Communist government after the invasion by the Warsaw Pact countries in 1968. Forman was subsequently forced to leave Czechoslovakia for the United States, where he continued making films, gaining wider critical and financial success.
Notable work
8.4One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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8Amadeus (1984)
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7.2Man on the Moon (1999)
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7The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
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7.3Hair (1979)
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7.5Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
as Self
6.1Keeping the Faith (2000)
as Father Havel
6.6Goya's Ghosts (2006)
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6.7Valmont (1989)
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