Miloš Forman (born 1932) is a director with worldwide fame, the author of masterpieces of world cinema such as “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Ragtime,” and “Amadeus.” In 1967, for his creative work, he was “banned for all time” by the party bosses in Czechoslovakia, and later emigrated to the United States. “I can’t enjoy life to the fullest, knowing that all roads to my childhood are blocked, that I have no chance to touch the roots that made me who I am,” Forman writes.
But the trial that fell to his lot—separation—did not kill the creator within him: the director and writer.
Miloš Forman’s name holds a place of honor in the history of cinema. His films won the most prestigious international awards. Stars of European and American cinema considered it an honor to film with him.
A favorite of fate? And is his book a story of success? But why such a strange title—“Revolutions” (Kruhovrat/“the Turnaround”)? Art and ideology, politics and creativity—into this swirl was drawn the fate of a young Czech filmmaker. It turns out that in the life of this brilliant master there were many terrible, sorrowful pages…