One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Convicted of seducing a minor, inmate McMurphy feigns mental illness to ease his prison sentence. He promptly ends up in the institution—a dictatorship in a nut's hell. The despotic head nurse suppresses every individual expression with a band of guards, treatment consisting of pills and electroshock therapy. McMurphy rebels against the system and begins to incite the inmates—with irreversible consequences... Jack Nicholson earns the certificate of nonconformity, Miloš Forman—himself "experienced in the system"—celebrates his breakthrough with a film that will never lose its relevance in many respects. At the Academy Awards, it sweeps the Big Five, marking the start of an Oscar hat-trick for Eric Pleskow: ROCKY and ANNIE HALL will follow.