High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Passenger (Italian: Professione: reporter) is a Italian-Spanish-French drama film from 1975, directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti, in which Jack Nicholson stars as a television reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger. The film competed for the "Palme d`Or" award at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.