The Passenger

Name: The Passenger
Genre: Classic, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1975
Duration: 126 min
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Steven Berkoff, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry

Michelangelo Antonioni19752h 6mClassic, Drama, Thriller

Why we chose it

In Michelangelo Antonioni’s drama about running away from yourself, Jack Nicholson plays a journalist who takes on a stranger’s identity and stows away in someone else’s life. Stay for the seven-minute penultimate shot, regarded as one of the most masterful in the history of cinema.

Synopsis

Disillusioned with his life and his job, TV reporter David Locke is trying to make a documentary about a civil war in North Africa, but he can’t find the guerrillas he wants to reach. When his car gets stuck in the sand, he walks back to his hotel and finds Robertson, a businessman he barely knew, dead in the next room. Locke swaps the photos in their passports and goes on checking in under a new name.