Ivan passer biography
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Ivan Passer (10 July 1933 – 9 January 2020) was a Czech rulle director and screenwriter, best known for his involvement in the Czechoslovak New Wave and for directing American films such as Born to Win (1971), Cutter's Way (1981) and Stalin (1992).
Passer was born in Prague, the son of Marianna (Mandelick) and Alois Passer. Passer attended King George boarding school in Poděbrady with future filmmakers Miloš Forman, Jerzy Skolimowski and Paul Fierlinger and statesman Václav Havel. He then studied at FAMU in Prague, but did not finish the course. He began his career as an assistant director on Ladislav Helge's Velká samota.
Later he collaborated with his friend Forman on all of Forman's Czech films, including Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967), both of which Passer co-wrote and which were nominated for Academy Awards. He introduced Forman to cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček whom he knew from Velká samota. He then directed his first feature, Intimate Lighting, wh
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Still Free: An Interview with Ivan Passer
To a certain degree, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was an ideal place to interview Ivan Passer. The festival, which is held annually in July in the pretty Czech Republic spa town (formerly Karlsbad), was established in its present form in 1965, the same year that Passer’s only Czech feature, Intimate Lighting, was first screened. This year, Passer was invited to Karlovy Vary to introduce the world premiere of the digitally restored Intimate Lighting, undertaken by the leading Czech postproduction house UPP and sound studio Soundsquare.
It was a pleasure to experience on the big screen the newly minted version of this proto-minimalist masterpiece, in which people eat, drink, play music and reminisce. Its gently mocking humor and keen eye for the minutiae of human behavior got me wondering if Jim Jarmusch, whose latest film Paterson I had watched the day before, had been directly or indirectly influenced by it.
Ivan Pas
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Ivan Passer Biography (1933-)
Born July 10, 1933, in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic); immigrated to the United States, c. 1969; children: Ivan Passer, Jr. (a productionassistant).
- Nationality
- Czech
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Director, writer
- Birth Details
- July 10, 1933
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Appearances
- Himself, Sametova kocovina (also known as Velvet Hangover),2000
- Film Work
- Director
- Fadni odpoledne (short film; also known as A Boring Afternoon), 1965
- Intimni osvetleni (also known as Intimate Lighting), Ceskoslovensky, 1966, Altura International/Fleetwood, 1969
- Born to Win (also known as Addict and Born to Lose),United Artists, 1971
- Law and Disorder, Columbia, 1974
- Crime and Passion (also known as An Ace up My Sleeve), American International Pictures, 1976
- The Silver Bears, Columbia, 1978
- Cutter's Way (also known as Cutter and Bone), United Artists, 1981
- Creator, Universal, 1985