The film director Milos Forman died

In the United States, at the age of 86, the two -time winner of the Oscar, film director Milos Forman, died, Hollywood Reporter reports .

The director died in his house in Warren, Connecticut. The cause of death has not yet been reported.

Forman received two “Oscars” for the films “flying over the cuckoo’s nest” (1975) - a picture on Ken Kizi’s book of the same name, telling about the fate of a criminal enclosed in a mental hospital and “Amadeus” (1978) - a costume production based on the biography of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

His other paintings shot in the United States are “people against Larry Flint” (1996, marked by the “Golden Bear” award of the Berlin Film Festival), “Valmon” (1989), “Man on the Moon” (1999) and “Ragtaym” (1981).

Forman was born on February 18, 1932 in the city of Regionallav, Czechoslovakia. During the Second World War, the father of the future director was arrested by the Nazis for storing prohibited literature and was killed in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Forman's mother died in Auschwitz.

Forman studied at a boarding school in a Potzobrad castle in the Czech city of Potzobrady. There, the future president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Gavel, was brought up with him.

The director’s debut in the genre of fiction was the drama "Black Peter" (1963). After the release of this film, Forman was world fame, the picture was marked by the main prize of the film festival in Locarno, Switzerland. The next work of the formamine was the satirical comedy "Ball of Firefighters" (1967), which anticipated the mood of the Prague Spring.

In 1968, after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops, Forman emigrated to the United States.