Jean-Claude Carriere Miloš Forman
Goya's Ghosts
The novel reveals a piece of the life of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya where his muse Inès is blamed to be heretic by the most powerful monk Lorenzo. Torn between the irresistable passion to the gorgeous Inès and the duties to God Lorenzo is in a trap and finds salvation in France. Fifteen years later he comes back to Spain, now being a protecter to the revolutionary ideals... Francisco Goya is a perceptive observer of that religious passion, love, betrayals, delusions and illusions.
The autors Jean-Claude Carriere and Milos Forman turn this dramatic story into a movie in 2007.
Jean-Claude Carriere
Jean-Claude Carrière was born on September 19, 1931 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France. He was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel. He is president of "La Fémis". Some notable screenplays he has written or co-written include: "Belle de Jour", "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", "Milou en Mai", "The Phantom of Liberty", "That Obscure Object of Desire", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Valmont", and "Chinese Box". He also collaborated with Peter Brook on a film version of the ancient Sanskrit epic, "The Mahabharata".
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1932) is a Czech-born American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. The early Forman's films – „Black Peter“ (1964), won the big prize of the Film Festival Locarno, “Loves of a Blonde” (1965) and “The Firemen's Ball” (1967), confirmed the young film director as an accepted leader of the so-called “Czech New Wave” or “Czech film miracle”.
Some of best-known films of Miloš Forman are: the adaptation of the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey „One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest“ (1975), won all five major Academy Awards - best picture, director, screenplay, actor, and actress; the film version of the popular 1967 Broadway musical "Hair" (1979); the film based on the E. L. Doctorow's novel „Ragtime“ (1975), realized under the same title in 1981; the nominated for fifty-three awards and received forty, including eight Academy Awards film „Amadeus“ (1984); „The People vs. Larry Flynt“ (1996), won the Golden Bear Award of Berlinale'97; „Man on the Moon“ (1999), „Goya's Ghosts“ (2006). Most of his works show a humanist empathy for people as victims of cruel systems over which they have little control.
In 1975 Miloš Forman became a U.S. citizen. He was given a full professorship and was made a director of the film division at Columbia University in New York City.
