"Maybe it's just as well that this version had to wait a decade to be filmed so Forman could be hired to do it. He brings life to the musical form in the same way that West Side Story did, the last time everyone was saying the movie musical was dead."

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Miloš Forman
  • USA 1979
  • 121 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

In New York City for the first time while on his way to enlist in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Oklahoma farm hand Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) meets up with a freewheeling group of Central Park hippies led by the irrepressible George Berger (Treat Williams). When the unlikely friends meet upper-middle-class debutante Sheila Franklin (Beverly D'Angelo), sparks fly between the country boy and the city girl, and Berger's troupe attempts to keep the young lovers together.

Filmography: Amadeus (1983), Ragtime (1981), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), The Firemen's Ball (1967), Loves of a Blonde (1965).


  • Director Miloš Forman
  • Production Michael Butler, Lester Persky
  • Script Michael Weller, Gerome Ragni, James Rado
  • Cinematography Miroslav Ondrícek, Richard C. Kratina, Jean Talvin
  • Editing Alan Heim, Stanley Warnow
  • Music Galt MacDermot
  • Actors John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
  • Source Park Circus, Glasgow