One day, young Randle P. McMurphy arrives at a clean and orderly psychiatric hospital. Convicted of violent crimes, he hopes to escape prison by passing himself off as insane. Doctors are tasked with determining whether he's a malingerer. His appearance, meanwhile, wreaks havoc in that closed environment of masked repression, of uncompromising discipline imposed and maintained by a strict head nurse, Miss Ratched. The cheerful McMurphy mocks group psychoanalysis sessions, acts as a radio commentator for imaginary baseball games, organizes a "boat escapade" with his classmates, and forms a basketball team. However, the more the inmates gather around him, infected by his spirit of disobedience, the more Ratched tightens the screws on the repressive system.
5 Academy Awards 1976: Best Picture / Best Director: Miloš Forman / Best Actor: Jack Nicholson / Best Actress: Louise Fletcher / Best Adapted Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
Winner of five Oscars in 1976 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Jack Nicholson, Best Actress for Louise Fletcher, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman), acclaimed by audiences around the world, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a subversive work that reflects not only on the relationship between normality and madness but also on the fragility of the individual in the face of the system of power. Isolation precedes the removal and elimination of the disturbing element, the deviation from the norm. McMurphy's rebellion is fought with means made possible by fundamentally repressive and inhuman laws and regulations. The beauty of a subversive and humane gesture is the only way out of prison. "I'll take you with me," says the great leader Bromden, and it is a declaration of love and freedom. (Fabio Fulfaro)
