It is a giant of Hollywood cinema who is gone. Alan Parker, the director of "Midnight Express" and "Birdy", is dead. He was 76 years old.
It was at the age of 34, in 1978, that he made the film that will install him in posterity: "Midnight Express". The feature film won two Oscars. That of the best screenplay and that of the best music, composed by Giorgio Moroder. But the film is best known for its story, that of an American sentenced to thirty years in prison for trafficking in hashish, who ends up in a prison in Turkey, where he lives through hell.
He is also the director of “Fame”, “Birdy”, “Pink Floyd: The Wall or“ Mississipi Burning ”.