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Ivan Passer

Highest Rated: 92% Cutter's Way (1981)

Lowest Rated: 7% Nomad (2007)

Birthday: Jul 10, 1933

Birthplace: Prague, Czechoslovakia

This leading figure of the Czech new wave co-scripted all of Milos Forman's native films before making his directorial debut with the acclaimed medium-length study of football fanaticism, "A Boring Afternoon" (1964). Passer's subsequent output displayed a Forman-like ability to capture the absurdity of everyday life and--as evinced by his highly-regarded first feature, "Intimate Lighting" (1965)--a sure feel for the uses of music in film. Following the Soviet invasion in 1968, Passer moved first to Western Europe, at the invitation of Carlo Ponti, and then to the US. He has made a number of modest, quirky films, the most successful of which, "Cutter's Way" (1981), an off-beat study of a group of drifters, became something of a cult favorite.

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Highest rated movies

92% 70% Cutter's Way
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40% 40% Law and Disorder
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38% 75% Creator
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33% 35% Born to Win
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7% 40% Nomad
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Deadly Identity
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Fourth Story
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An Ace Up My Sleeve
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74% Kidnapped
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A Blonde in Love
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
7% 40% Nomad Director - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nomad: The Warrior Director $77.2K 2005
No Score Yet 68% The Wishing Tree Director - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Picnic Director - 2000
No Score Yet 74% Kidnapped Director - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet While Justice Sleeps Director - 1994
No Score Yet 72% Stalin Director - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deadly Identity Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fourth Story Director - 1991
No Score Yet 78% Haunted Summer Director $4.7K 1988
38% 75% Creator Director $4.6M 1985
92% 70% Cutter's Way Director - 1981
No Score Yet 33% Silver Bears Director - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crime and Passion Director - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet An Ace Up My Sleeve Director - 1975
40% 40% Law and Disorder Director,
Screenwriter
- 1974
33% 35% Born to Win Director,
Screenwriter
- 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Addict Director - 1971
No Score Yet 82% Intimate Lighting Director - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Blonde in Love Screenwriter,
Writer
- 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Konkurs Writer - 1963