Becoming Mike Nichols

Just four months before his death, one of America's most significant directors openly talks about his fate. Memories of his immigrant childhood, the beginning of his career in the theater club at the University of Chicago, a comedy duo with Elaine May, his first success on Broadway, theatrical productions and fruitful collaboration with playwright Neil Simon, the dizzying success of his first films – "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and "Graduate" with the novice Dustin By Hoffman. Michael Nichols, the winner of all the major awards in American show business, shares this with his close friend, theater director Jack O'Brien, with disarming frankness and his inherent wit and self-irony.