Death of Ted Kotcheff: Rambo Orphan – Liberation

Canadian filmmaker Ted Kotcheff died at the age of 94 and posterity will remember that he committed Rambo (Or RAMBO – The devastating In Quebec), a film that changed the face of Hollywood – or how to transform American defeat into Vietnam as fuel of revanchards muscular blockbusters in the 1980s. But like his hero, which we first take for a vagabond, Kotcheff was a veteran and roded specialist, adorning between genres and formats. Born in 1931 of Bulgaro-Macedonian parents in Toronto, he became the youngest director on Canadian TV at 24 after winning a diploma in English literature.

Migrating to the London sets, he turned without ciller in 1958 and live the drama of anticipation Underground (on an atomic explosion in the metro), where one of the actors dies off-champ during broadcast-experience that may inspire him on the set of Weekend at Bernie (1989), a black comedy where two employees wander with the corpse of their boss and try to hide his death. He also feels the theater, directs Ingrid Bergman in a cathodic adaptation of The human voice of Cocteau in 1966 and began a cinema career including the most famous feature film