MOVIES - Nov. 7, 1988

Twenty years after he left Czechoslovakia, the films of director Milos Forman--”Amadeus” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”--are being bought for distribution in his native country. A report in Friday’s Communist Party daily newspaper Rude Pravo announced the purchase, confirming rumors in the Cech capital of Prague that Forman movies would be seen by his former countrymen. A Prague film critic who asked to remain anonymous welcomed the news and opined that it indicated that “those friends and colleagues of his (Forman’s) who managed to keep the lid on his work for a long time are finally retiring.” Only the Oscar-winning “Amadeus” has been seen in Czechoslovakia, and that only in Prague.