The Passenger (1975) ( Professione: reporter )

The Passenger (1975) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Professione: reporter
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Belgium ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Michelangelo Antonioni

Written By:
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Peploe

Actors:
Jack Nicholson ..... David Locke
Maria Schneider ..... Girl
Jenny Runacre ..... Rachel Locke
Ian Hendry ..... Martin Knight
Steven Berkoff ..... Stephen
Ambroise Bia ..... Achebe
José María Caffarel ..... Hotel Keeper
James Campbell ..... Witch Doctor
Manfred Spies ..... German Stranger
Jean-Baptiste Tiemele ..... Murderer
Ángel del Pozo ..... Police inspector
Charles Mulvehill ..... Robertson, the Dead Man (as Chuck Mulvehill)
Narciso Pula ..... Murderer's accomplice

Synopsis:

A reporter arrives at a desert hotel, in a North African country, to report on the guerrilla freedom-fighters there. He meets a man who dies suddenly, and who resembles the reporter so much, that he decides to change identities with the dead man - to escape his personal problems, and more. The life is of a man is made of his ingrained habits, and that will haunt him, as he tries to start a new relationship with a young, strange woman he subsequently meets...

The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the compelling psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson, in one of his finest performances, plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead man in his hotel room, Locke, long desirous of starting life over again, assumes the corpse's identity. He soon discovers that the man he's pretending to be is involved in espionage activities on behalf of a terrorist group. Making the acquaintance of a mysterious woman (Maria Schneider), he finds a kindred spirit -- a woman as 'lost' as he.

A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.

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