About the book: 1999 / Milos Forman (born in 1932) - director with worldwide fame, author of such masterpieces of world cinema as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ", "Ragtime", "Amadeus". In 1967, for his work, he was “banned for all time” by the party bosses of Czechoslovakia and subsequently emigrated to the United States. “I cannot enjoy life to the fullest, knowing that all roads to the country of my childhood are blocked, that I have no opportunity to touch my origins, to what made me this way,” Forman writes. But the test that befell him share - the test of separation - did not kill the Creator in him: the director and writer. The name of Milos Forman occupies an honorable place in the history of cinema. His films have won the most prestigious international awards. The stars of European and American cinema considered it an honor to act in his films. The minion of fate? And his book is a success story? But why such a strange name - “Cycle”? Art and ideology, politics and creativity—the fate of the young Czech filmmaker was drawn into this cycle. It turns out that in the life of the brilliant master there were many terrible, sorrowful pages…