Throughout his career, Czechoslovakianborn filmmaker Milos Forman has combined a unique sensitivity to American themes with the best of European cinematic sensibilities. His films include such successful American releases as ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST 1975, HAIR 1979, RAGTIME 1981, and AMADEUS 1983. Forman is among only a handful of filmmakers whose body of work represents a constant artistic integrity with broad popular appeal.Born in 1932 in Caslav, a small town outside of Prague, Forman lost both his parents in the Nazi death camps during World War II. In the early 1950s, Forman enrolled in the newly founded Film Institute at the University of Prague, where he worked with many of the major figures of the Golden Age of Czech Cinema. It was there that he first began to form his unique visual style.

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