The Passenger (1975 film)
Filming
In a long take, early in the film, Nicholson's character Locke is switching photos, between Locke's and Robertson's passports, in his hotel room, with a tape recording playing an earlier conversation between Locke and Robertson, now dead. The camera pans for 25 seconds, without a cut, to hold on Robertson's now live appearance on the balcony, when Locke appears beside him and the two of them continue talking (i.e. an in-camera in-single-shot flashback).
Filming
The execution of a prisoner in this film is not staged. It consists of actual footage of a real execution that the crew filmed while on location.
The Passenger (1975 film)
The Passenger (Italian: Professione: reporter) is a 1975 drama) thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Written by Antonioni, Mark Peploe, and Peter Wollen, the film is about a disillusioned 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 civil war. Along the way, he is accompanied by an unnamed young woman (Maria Schneider)).
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