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The Passenger is a american film of genre Drama directed by Michelangelo Antonioni released in USA on 9 april 1975 with Jack Nicholson
The Passenger (1975)
Professione: reporter
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 april 1975
Length 2h6
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
OriginUSA
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Transport films, L'usurpation d'identité, Road movies, Escroquerie
Rating74%
The Passenger (Italian: Professione: reporter) is a 1975 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Written by Antonioni and Peter Wollen, the film is about a British-American journalist, David Locke (Jack Nicholson) who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections to the rebels in the current civil war. Co-starring Maria Schneider, The Passenger was the final film in Antonioni's three-picture deal with producer Carlo Ponti and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after Blowup and Zabriskie Point, and competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a television journalist making a documentary film on post-colonial Africa. To finish the film, he is in the Sahara desert seeking to meet with and interview rebel fighters involved in Chad's civil war. Struggling to find rebels to interview, he is frustrated when his Land Rover gets hopelessly stuck on a sand dune. After a long walk through the desert back to his hotel, a thoroughly glum Locke learns that an Englishman, Robertson (Charles Mulvehill), who has also been staying there and with whom he had struck up a friendship, has died overnight at the hotel.Actors
Jack Nicholson
(David Locke)
Maria Schneider
(Girl)
Steven Berkoff
(Stephen)
Ian Hendry
(Martin Knight)
Jenny Runacre
(Rachel Locke)
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