HAIR

Director - Milos Forman

Script - Michael Weller

Camera - Miroslav Ondrícek

Music - Galt MacDermot

Cast - John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Don Dacus, Nicholas Ray, Charlotte Rae

Producers - Michael Butler, Lester Persky

Production - CIP Filmproduktion

Claude, a farm boy from Oklahoma “believes in God, and believes that God believes in Claude.” Claude travels to New York as a patriot to join the Vietnam War. However, in Central Park he meets a group of hippies. Claude discovers freedom, drugs and his first love Sheila. He gradually stops believing in everything he used to consider “right.” This film is an anti-war parable full of hippie tenderness, psychedelic fantasies, and outstanding music. “Hair”was written in the decade after the 1960s, when the revolutionary spirit of that time had become a nostalgic memory.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

David di Donatelo '79 – Best Foreign Director, Best Foreign Music Golden Globes '80 – Nomination for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male (Treat Williams) César '80 – Nomination for Best Foreign Film

Miloš Forman

Miloš Forman is born on 18 February 1932 in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. His parents died in Auschwitz. He studied direction at the School of Cinema in Prague. In his Czechoslovakian films, Black Peter (winner of the Grand Priz in Locarno), A Blonde in Love, and The Firemen's Ball (both nominated for a foreign language film “Oscar”), he created his own style of comedy. During the invasion of his country by the troops of the Warsaw pact in the summer of 1968 to stop the Prague spring, he left Europe for the United States. He achieved fame with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which won five Oscars including one for direction. Other important films of Milos Forman are the musical Hair and Amadeus, which won eight Oscars.

FILMOGRAPHY

1963 Audition (Konkurs)
1964 Black Peter (Černý Petr)
1966 A Blonde in Love (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
1968 The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko)
1971 Taking Off
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1979 Hair
1981 Ragtime
1984 Amadeus
1989 Valmont
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1999 Man on the Moon
2007 Goya's Ghosts

HAIR

USA-West Germany, 1979, 121′, color

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Miloš Forman