Hair
Screening on Film
Directed by Milos Forman.
With John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo.
US/West Germany, 1979, 35mm, color, 121 min.
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With John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo.
US/West Germany, 1979, 35mm, color, 121 min.
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A band of hippies in Central Park led by the dynamic Berger (played with great zeal by Treat Williams) encounters a young draftee from Oklahoma (Savage) and seeks to open his mind to the counterculture. Based on the seemingly unfilmable Broadway smash, Milos Forman’s rousing work was one of the few successes in the musical genre during the 1970s. Made four years after the fall of Saigon, the film serves as more of a tribute to the ideals of the protest movement than a reassertion of its ideology.
