Milos Forman - Definition and Overview

Jan TomᚠForman (born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman, is a film director, actor and script writer.

Forman was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. He was orphaned at a very young age when his parents died at the concentration camp in Auschwitz for their membership in a Czech Resistance group. After the war, Miloš attended King George College public school in the spa town Podebrady, where his fellow students were Václav Havel and the Mašín brothers. Later on he studied film direction at the School of Cinema in Prague. He directed several Czechoslovakian comedies before leaving for the United States in 1968, after the Warsaw Pact invasion of his country.

In spite of initial difficulties he started directing in his new home country, achieving his first success with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975, which won five Academy Awards including one for direction. Another notable success was Amadeus.

Notable works

• Black Peter (1963)
• Audition (1963)
• The Loves of a Blond (1966)
• The Firemen's Ball (1968)
• Taking Off (1971)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Hair - musical (1979)
• Amadeus (1984)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Man On The Moon (1999)

External link

• Miloš Forman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001232/) at the Internet Movie Database