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Section: Literature in Film - Classics
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Randle Patrick McMurphy is serving a sentence for repeated violent assault and sexual abuse. Instead of doing time in a labor camp, he plays crazy and is sent to the seeming calm of a psychiatric hospital. His zeal for life and strong personality in the institute soon clash with the absolutism of Nurse Ratched, who, with three orderlies, tyrannically rules the entire institute. But McMurphy's rebellion has little hope against the power of the machinery embodied by the nurse…
| Country | United States of America |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Duration | 133 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | English |
| Subtitle | Czech |
| Directed by | Miloš Forman |
| Screenplay | Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Dale Wasserman |
| Director of Photography | Haskell Wexler |
| Music | Jack Nitzsche |
| Edited by | Sheldon Kahn, Lynzee Klingman, Richard Chew |
| Contact | The Saul Zaentz Company |
Biography
A director of Czech origin. Before emigrating in 1968 he made the films The Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky, 1965) and The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko, 1967). In America, his films included the Oscar-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984).
Human Rights, Literature, Freedom, Empathy, Friendship, Death, Teamwork, Mental Health