Passenger, TheItaly / Spain / France
1975, 126min.
Prod.: Carlo Ponti, Script: Mark Peploe, Peter Wollen, Michelangelo Antonioni, Dir.: Michelangelo Antonioni, Dir. of Phot.: Luciano Tovoli, Compos.: Ivan Vandor, Prod. Design: Piero Poletto, Sound: Fausto Ancillai, Edit.: Michelangelo Antonioni, Franco Arcalli, Assist.Dir.: Enrica Fico (Antonioni).
Cast: Jack Nicholson (David Locke), Maria Schneider (Girl), Jenny Runacre (Rachel Locke), Ian Hendry (Martin Knight), Steven Berkoff (Stephen), Ambroise Bia (Achebe).
The reporter David Locke arrives at a desert hotel in a North African country in the Sahara Desert to report on the guerrillas fighting there. He meets a man who dies suddenly, and who resembles Locke so much, that he decides to change identities with the dead man--to escape his personal problems. The life 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 meets subsequently....
Production Companies
Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
CIPI Cinematografica S.A. (co-production)
Les Films Concordia (associate production) | Antonioni, Michelangelo  Nationality: Italian. Born: Ferrara, Italy, 29 September 1912. Education: Studied at University of Bologna, 1931–35, and at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografica, Rome, 1940–41. Career: Journalist and bank teller, 1935–39; moved to Rome, 1939; film critic for Cinema (Rome) and others, 1940–49; assistant director on I due Foscari (Fulchignoni), 1942; wrote screenplays for Rossellini, Fellini, and others, 1942–52; directed first film, Gente del Po, 1943 (released 1947). Awards: Special Jury Prize, Cannes Festival, for L'avventura, 1960, and L'eclisse, 1962; FIPRESCI Award from Venice Festival, for Il deserto Rosso, 1964; Best Director Award, National Society of Film Critics, for Blow-Up, 1966; Palme d'Or, Cannes Festival, for Blow-Up, 1967; Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Film, 1995. Died in Rome, Italy, 30 July, 2007.
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