Ivan Passer
Ivan M. Passer (born July 10, 1933 in Prague , Czechoslovakia , † January 9, 2020 in Reno , Nevada ) was a Czech director and screenwriter .
Life
Ivan M. Passer was born in Prague in 1933 to Jewish-Catholic parents. His parents were sent to a labor camp in Klettendorf by the Nazis ; They divorced in 1947. While his mother remarried in Slovakia , he stayed with his sister Eva with his father and grandfather. Because of his rural origins and religion, he was subjected to reprisals in his youth. He had several jobs, such as in a factory, as a bricklayer and on the construction site, before he was admitted to the Prague Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts .
There he studied from 1955 to 1958. He found a position as assistant director with the director Miloš Forman relatively quickly and made several films with him that later became part of the Czech New Wave . After the crackdown on the Prague Spring , Passer emigrated to the USA in 1969 . He stayed in New York City until 1979 , where he made films such as Law and Disorder and Silver Bears . In 1975 he directed the mostly German-produced film flop Frankenstein's Haunted Castle with international cast ( Omar Sharif , Karen Black , Bernhard Wicki ) . He then moved to Los Angeles and filmed Cutter's Way here in 1981 with Jeff Bridges and John Heard . Commercially, Cutter's Way was a failure, but over the years it became a cult film with a high reputation among critics.
He had his greatest success in 1992 with the biography Stalin , which was not only the first feature film ever to be shot in the original locations, but also gave leading actor Robert Duvall his fourth Golden Globe as best actor.
Passer died of lung disease in Nevada in January 2020 at the age of 86. He left behind his wife Anne and a son.
Filmography (selection)
Script only
- 1963: If there weren't any musicians (Kdyby ty muziky nebyly)
- 1963: competition (bankruptcy)
- 1965: The Love of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
- 1967: The fire brigade ball (Hoří, má panenko)
As a director
- 1965: Intimate lighting (Intimní osvětlení)
- 1971: Born to win
- 1975: Frankenstein's haunted castle (Ace Up My Sleeve)
- 1978: Silver Bears , Banks and Crooks
- 1981: Cutter's Way (Cutter's Way)
- 1985: The Professor or How I Raised My Wife (Creator)
- 1988: Haunted Summer
- 1991: Twilight Mystery (Fourth Story)
- 1992: Stalin
- 1994: Blood on Their Hands (While Justice Sleeps)
- 1995: David Balfour: Between Freedom and Death (Kidnapped)
- 1999: The Wishing Tree
- 2000: Picnic
- 2005: Nomad - The Warrior (Nomad)
Awards (selection)
- 2001: Nomination in the category Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for Der Wunschbaum
- 1994: Nomination in the category of best director of a film or mini-series for Stalin
literature
- Jiří Voráč: Ivan Passer - Filmový vypravěč rozmanitostí
Web links
- Ivan Passer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Čermák: Jiří Voráč o Ivanu Passerovi. In: pozitivni-noviny.cz. February 7, 2009, Retrieved April 18, 2012 (Czech).
- ↑ Zlatá šedesátá ukončí Ivan Passer a jeho naturščici. In: ČT24 . July 25, 2009, accessed January 11, 2020 (Czech).
- ↑ Josef Čermák: Jiří Voráč: Ivan Passer, The Storyteller of Diversities. In: pozitivni-noviny.cz. February 27, 2009, accessed January 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Andrew Pulver: Czech new wave director Ivan Passer dies aged 86. In: theguardian.com . January 10, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Pat Saperstein: Ivan Passer, Director of 'Cutter's Way,' Dies at 86. In: variety.com . January 10, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passer, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Passer, Ivan M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2020 |
| Place of death | Reno , Nevada |