Ivan Passer

Ivan Passer

Born 10/07/1933
Prague, Czechoslovakia

Died 09/01/2020 (86 years old)
Reno, Nevada, USA

Biography (1)

Ivan Passer (b. 1933, Prague), screenwriter and director, only managed to shoot one medium-length film and one feature during the 1960s before emigrating to the USA in 1968; nevertheless, he is regarded as one of the most important figures of the New Wave. Together with Jaroslav Papoušek and Miloš Forman he wrote the scripts for all of Forman's Czech films, and he shares common ground with the latter in his way of viewing reality and in his use of stylistic… (more)

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