The Passenger
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Thriller, Psychological thriller, World cinema, Drama
Year: 1975
Country: Italy, France, Spain, United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff, Ian Hendry, Jenny Runacre, Ambroise Bia, Jean-Baptiste Tiemele, José María Caffarel, James Campbell, Manfred Spies
The Passenger (Italian: Professione: reporter) is a film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1975, in which Jack Nicholson stars as a television reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger. The film competed for the "Palme d'Or" award at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.
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, his frustrations reach a climax 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 finds that an Englishman by the name of Robertson (Charles Mulvehill), who has also been staying there and with whom he had struck up a friendship, is dead. Tired of his work, his marriage and his life, Locke switches identities with Robertson, carefully cutting and swapping the photographs in their passports. Posing as Robertson, he reports his own death; since the hotel manager has already mistaken Locke for Robertson, the plan goes off
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