The author, Ken Kesey, worked in a mental hospital in the 1950s, which is also when the novel is set. Kesey felt that life in 1950s America was very oppressive, and this oppression is a key theme ...
Set and filmed in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon in the US, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was directed by Milos Forman and based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. The film proved ...