The Passenger (1975)


Topics The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mark Peploe, Peter Wollen, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Carlo Ponti
The Passenger (Italian: Professione: reporter) is a 1975 drama neo-noir art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Written by Antonioni, Mark Peploe, and Peter Wollen, the film is about an Anglo-American journalist, David Locke (Jack Nicholson), who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections to the rebels in the current civil war.
Co-starring Maria Schneider, The Passenger was the final film in Antonioni's three-picture deal with producer Carlo Ponti and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after Blowup and Zabriskie Point, and competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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