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Ivan Passer
Director 1933 - 2020

Ivan Passer

Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Ivan Passer (10 July 1933 – 9 January 2020) was a Czech film 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,... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

7 titles
Nomad

Nomad

Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer 2005 1h 52m 6.3

The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.

Picnic

Picnic

Ivan Passer 2000 1h 40m

The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.

Creator

Creator

Ivan Passer 1985 1h 47m 6.0

With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love.

Cutter's Way

Cutter's Way

Ivan Passer 1981 1h 49m 7.0

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Silver Bears

Silver Bears

Ivan Passer 1977 1h 53m 6.0

Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher acquires a Swiss bank and a silver mine - alleged to be worth a billion dollars. As rivals close in from all sides, Doc must fight a complex struggle to keep hold of both the bank and the mine.

Born to Win

Born to Win

Ivan Passer 1971 1h 28m 6.0

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Intimni osvetleni

Intimni osvetleni

Ivan Passer 1965 1h 13m 8.0

Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.

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