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Summaries. In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse. McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, debut novel by Ken Kesey, first published in 1962. At a Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey had been a paid volunteer and experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs such as LSD and recording their effects, and this experience and his work as an aide at the hospital served as ...
Знаете ли вы, что… Фильм снят по мотивам романа Кена Кизи «Над кукушкиным гнездом» (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962).; Кен Кизи написал свою книгу под впечатлением от работы в Калифорнийском госпитале для ветеранов.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. “Jack Nicholson stars in an outstanding characterization of Ken Kesey's asylum anti-hero, McMurphy, and Milos Forman's direction of a superbly-cast film is equally meritorious. After being convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, Randle McMurphy pretends to be insane in order to avoid prison.
Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
La inflexible disciplina del centro acentúa su contagiosa tendencia al desorden, que acabará desencadenando una guerra entre los pacientes y el personal de la clínica con la fría y severa enfermera Ratched (Louise Fletcher) a la cabeza. La suerte de cada paciente del pabellón está en juego. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), un hombre ...
Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) è un film del 1975 diretto da Miloš Forman.. La pellicola ha come interpreti principali Jack Nicholson e Louise Fletcher ed è tratta dal romanzo omonimo di Ken Kesey, pubblicato nel 1962 e tradotto in italiano nel 1976 da Rizzoli.L'autore scrisse il libro in seguito alla propria esperienza da volontario all'interno del ...
