Milos Forman

Date of Birth: 18 Feb 1932

Country: Czech Republic

Biography: Czech director Milos Forman lost his Jewish father and Protestant mother to Hitler's concentration camps. He studied at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Prague, serving his professional apprenticeship as a writer of the pioneering Laterna Magika mixed-media presentations of the 1950s. Already an award-winning filmmaker thanks to a brace of short subjects, Forman directed his first feature, Black Peter, in 1963. (All Movie Guide)

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