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Czech Film Night & Matinee: Milos Forman, What Doesn't Kill You (English & Czech audio, English subtitles)

Milos Forman, What Doesn’t Kill You is a documentary about award-winning film director Milos Forman, who directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeaus, Hair, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon and more. This film follows Forman as he returns to his home in the Czech Republic and explains how his experiences there informed his films. For example, in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest he saw the character of Nurse Ratched as communism. Rather than casting an older, harsher woman as was called for, he cast a woman who appeared tender and nurturing, which he felt characterized communism’s appeal as a caretaker masking the character’s “ratcheting” control of the patients, accruing in almost in undetectable increments.  (English and Czech audio, English subtitles.)