Ivan Passer

Ivan Passer at 43rd KVIFF

Ivan Passer (born 10 July 1933) is a Czech-born film director and screenwriter.

A significant figure in the Czech New Wave of the mid-1960s, Passer worked closely with Miloš Forman on many of his films, and directed his first feature in 1965. Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Passer defected to the West, aided by Carlo Ponti and has been living and working in the United States since then.

Filmography

Konkurs (1963) (co-writer only, with Miloš Forman, Jaroslav Papousek and Vaclav Sasek)
Intimate Lighting (1965) (also co-writer, with Jaroslav Papousek and Vaclav Sasek)
Loves of a Blonde (1965) (co-writer only, with Miloš Forman, Jaroslav Papousek and Vaclav Sasek)
The Firemen's Ball (1967) (co-writer only, with Miloš Forman, Jaroslav Papousek and Vaclav Sasek)
Born to Win (1971) (also co-writer, with David Scott Milton)
Law and Disorder (1974) (also co-writer, with Kenneth Harris Fishman and William Richert)
Crime and Passion (1976) (also co-writer, with William Richert)
Silver Bears (1977)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1983) (TV)
Creator (1985)
Haunted Summer (1988)
Fourth Story (1990) (TV)
Stalin (1992) (TV)
While Justice Sleeps (1994) (TV)
Kidnapped (1995) (TV)
The Wishing Tree (1999)
Picnic (2000) (TV)
Nomad: The Warrior (2006)

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