Title: Meeting Milos Forman
Authors: Weingarten, Miriam Hetlar,; Audio Brandon Films.
Publisher: Audio Brandon,
Year: 1971
Subjects: Forman, Miloš.; Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors Czechoslovakia.; New wave films.; Motion picture actors and actresses.; Fiction films.; Motion picture authorship.; Czechoslovakia History
Abstract: An interview with the Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, including film clips of his work. Born in 1932 in Caslav, Czechoslovakia director Milos Forman was raised in a Jewish home that was devastated by the Nazi atrocities of World War II. His father, Rudolf, a professor of education was arrested in 1940 and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he died in 1944. His mother Anna, a Protestant was sent to Auschwitz, where she died in 1943. After the war, Forman and his brothers, Blahoslav and Pavel, were raised by his uncles. As a young man coming of age in Czechoslovakia he applied to the Drama Institute at the University of Prague, but was rejected. He then applied to the Film Institute, where he learned the essentials of film production, directing several documentaries for Czech television. By the time Meeting Milos Forman was made, Forman was an internationally acclaimed director and the star of the Czech New Wave which utilized non-actors and improvised dialogue to create celebrated films such as The Fireman's Ball and Loves Of A Blonde. After emmigrating to the United States, he went on to direct One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which became the second film in cinema history to sweep the top five Academy Awards, earning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1975.