Ivan Passer

Ivan Passer at 43rd KVIFF

Ivan Passer (born July 10, 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 Soviet invasion in 1968, Passer defected to the West, aided by Carlo Ponti and has been living and working in the United States since then.

Filmography

Director:

• Intimate Lighting (and co-screenwriter 1965)
• Born to Win (1971)
• Law and Disorder (and screenwriter 1974)
• Silver Bears (1977)
• Cutter's Way (1981)
• Creator (1985)
• Haunted Summer (1988)
• Fourth Story (1990)
• Stalin (1992)
• While Justice Sleeps (1994)
• Kidnapped (1995)
• The Wishing
• Picnic (2000)
• Nomad (2005)

As screenwriter for Milos Forman:

• Konkurs (1963)
• Lásky Jedné Plavovlásky (Loves of a Blond) (1965)
• The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

Appearing as himself:

• Velvet Hangover (2000), a documentary by Robert Buchar

External links

• Ivan Passer at the Internet Movie Database

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