He placed Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg into orbit… Made Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson transcend themselves. He was a source of inspiration for many directors, Spielberg first and foremost, but also the Cohen brothers, Steven Soderbergh, and Quentin Tarantino.

The documentary “From Improv to Icon, the Journey of Mike Nichols” unveils the incredible Hollywood journey of a young child, fleeing the horrors of Nazism with his family from Germany, to become one of the most influential directors of the last fifty years. Through the testimonies and anecdotes of those who knew and worked with him, this film traces his extraordinary path and shows the undying mark he left on the history of cinema up to his last film, “Charlie Wilson’s War,” in 2011.