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Life As It Is: Milos Forman on Milos Forman

Spiked with personal stories and invaluable insights into the craft of filmmaking, this intimate talk with legendary Czech-American film director Milos Forman takes us on a journey through Forman’s life and career, from his early successes as a key figure in the Czech New Wave (BLACK PETER, LOVES OF A BLONDE, THE FIREMEN’S BALL) to his award winning masterpieces in the United States (TAKING OFF, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, AMADEUS, MAN ON THE MOON). Shot in New York in May 2000, a condensed version of this on-camera interview opened the Milos Forman retrospective at Filmfest Munich that same year. As a tribute to the great director, who passed away in April 2018, this newly edited version presents the complete footage for the very first time.

  • Robert Fischer
    Director
  • Robert Fischer
    Writer
  • Robert Fischer
    Producer
  • Milos Forman
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 55 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 15, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Filmfest München
    Munich
    Germany
    July 6, 2018
    World Premiere
    Lights, Camera, Action
  • Das Filmfest
    Prague
    Czech Republic
    October 20, 2018
    Czech Premiere
    Die Doku
Distribution Information
  • Fiction Factory Robert Fischer Filmproduktion
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Robert Fischer

Robert Fischer was born in 1954. He started writing about film in the mid-1970s and, with his books on Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Jodie Foster, Bernhard Wicki, Jean-Pierre Melville, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Bresson, André Bazin and François Truffaut, soon became one of Germany’s foremost film historians. For his translations of Truffaut’s complete writings into German, he was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Cultural Minister Jack Lang. Together with Joe Hembus he wrote a history of the New German Cinema. After a five-year stint as Vice Director at the Munich Film Museum, where he was involved in the reconstruction of Orson Welles’ unfinished films, he switched to filmmaking in 1999. His documentary MONSIEUR TRUFFAUT MEETS MR. HITCHCOCK was screened at the Cinemathèque Française in Paris, at New York’s Film Forum and at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. In 2000, his documentary MILOS FORMAN: FILM IS TRUTH opened the Forman retrospective at the Munich Film Festival. FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD (2002) and ERNST LUBITSCH IN BERLIN (2006) have both been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Fischer was a programmer for the Munich Film Festival for 25 years and works as a consulting producer for The Criterion Collection and other prestigious DVD labels.

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