4.7

107 reviews

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Miloš Forman19752h 13mDrama, Classic

Why we chose it

Years before the film won five Oscars, the secret police in Prague seized the copy of Ken Kesey’s novel that Kirk Douglas sent to Miloš Forman. Jack Nicholson lands on a locked psychiatric ward where nobody argues with the head nurse, so he does, and freedom costs more than anything else in there.

Synopsis

Sent from prison to a psychiatric hospital for observation, McMurphy finds a ward run by Nurse Ratched, whose rules bind everyone without exception and which the patients stopped questioning long ago. He questions them on his very first afternoon, and the battle he starts will change everything around him.

Information

Director
Cast

Festival screenings: Oscars
Language: English
Country: United States
Subtitles: Greek, Polish
Age rating: 15+

Oscars

Best Film

1976

Oscars

Best Actor (Jack Nicholson)

1976

Oscars

Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)

1976

Oscars

Best Director

1976

Oscars

Best Adapted Screenplay

1976

BAFTA

Best Film

1977

BAFTA

Best Actor (Jack Nicholson)

1977

BAFTA

Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)

1977

BAFTA

Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif)

1977

What others say

4.7

107 reviews

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