Hair

Germany and United States of America, 1979

Film
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“Hair” is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical “Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.

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Credits

director

Miloš Forman

costume design

Ann Roth

producer

Lester Persky

Michael Butler

production company

CIP Filmproduktion GmbH

United Artists

production design

Stuart Wurtzel

screenplay

Gerome Ragni

James Rado

Duration

02:01:00

Production dates
1979

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-10654

Language

English

Subject categories

Comedy

Drama

Music

Romance

War

TMDB-Movie

10654

Wikidata

Q757156

Collected

123 times

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