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Filmmaker · Czechia

Ivan Passer

Died in 2020

Ivan Passer was born on 10 July 1933 in Prague; during the war his father was interned in a labour camp and his mother hid with the Slovak resistance. A pupil at the King George boarding school in Poděbrady with Miloš Forman and Václav Havel, he entered the Prague film school without completing the course, then co-wrote all of Forman's Czech films. Settled in the United States around 1969, he made films there for cinema and television, taught at the University of Southern California and died in Reno on 9 January 2020.

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