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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).
Jan 14, 2020 · Ivan Passer, a director who joined Milos Forman and others in ushering in the filmmaking movement known as the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, then went on to direct American features,...
Ivan Passer was one of the key authors of the "new wave" of Czech cinema, a group of young people who forged an energetic and transgressive film movement in the 1960s, breaking away from the precepts of hard socialist realism.
Jan 10, 2020 · Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave who directed films including “Cutter’s Way,” died Thursday of pulmonary complications in Reno, Nevada, an associate of the family confirmed. He...
Jan 10, 2020 · Ivan Passer, a part of the Czech New Wave and director of Cutter’s Way, has died at the age of 86. Passer died on Thursday in Reno, NV, following a 40-year career in film and television,...
Jan 13, 2020 · Ivan Passer had died on Thursday at the age of eighty-six. He’d spent much of his childhood wandering the mountains with a hunting dog and a Russian rifle while the Nazis rampaged across the continent.
Jan 11, 2020 · Ivan Passer, ‘Cutter’s Way’ director and Czech New Wave pioneer, dies at 86. Ivan Passer at Hugo’s restaurant, a favorite dining spot in West Hollywood, in October. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles...
