Ivan Passer
Nascimento : 1933-07-10, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Morte : 2020-01-09
História
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, the son of Marianna (Mandelick) and Alois Passer. Passer attended King George boarding school in Poděbrady with future filmmakers Miloš Forman, Jerzy Skolimowski and Paul Fierlinger and statesman Václav Havel. He then studied at FAMU in Prague, but did not finish the course. He began his career as an assistant director on Ladislav Helge's Velká samota.
Later he collaborated with his friend Forman on all of Forman's Czech films, including Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967), both of which Passer co-wrote and which were nominated for Academy Awards. He introduced Forman to cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček whom he knew from Velká samota. He then directed his first feature, Intimate Lighting, which was released in 1965 and is considered by some to be Passer's masterpiece.
In 1969, after the Warsaw Pact invasion, Passer and Forman left Czechoslovakia together. Both proceeded to the United States, with Forman becoming an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Passer went on to make several prominent American films such as Born to Win (1971), a junkie drama starring George Segal and Karen Black, and Cutter's Way (1981), a dramatic thriller starring Jeff Bridges and John Heard.
Though best known for his idiosyncratic, often gritty dramas, he also directed comedies such as Silver Bears (1978) starring Michael Caine and Creator (1985) starring Peter O'Toole. Later in his career, he directed numerous films for television, most notably the award-winning biopic Stalin (1992) starring Robert Duvall for HBO. He was also a film professor at the University of Southern California.
Passer died on January 9, 2020 from pulmonary complications in Reno, Nevada. He was 86 years old.
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An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
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A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.
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Cazaquistão, século 18. O povo está dividido em diversas tribos de nômades, que percorrem as imensas extensões de seu país. Mas a paz é frágil, e um inimigo comum começa extinguir essas tribos. Uma velha vidente, mostrando a necessidade de unir os clãs, anuncia o nascimento de uma criança, Mansur, descendente do poderoso Gengis Khan. Quando o inimigo toma conhecimento do poder desta criança, ele decide eliminá-la a todo custo. Somente a intervenção de Oraz, poderoso guerreiro poderá oferecer segurança à Mansur. Um filme belíssimo sobre o destino de um guerreiro, sinônimo de esperança para seu povo.
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Alan Benson (Ben Caswell) é apaixonado por Madge Owens (Gretchen Mol) e está prestes a pedí-la em casamento. Mas a chegada de seu velho e charmoso amigo de escola, Hal Carter (Josh Brolin), no feriado do Dia do Trabalho causa uma reviravolta na pequena cidade do Kansas e no coração de muita gente, especialmente no de Madge.
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When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a local legend of the "Magic Man" (Blair Underwood). While looking for the source of the tale, Clara uncovers suprising family secrets. Czech filmmaker Ivan Passer directs this family drama that delves into the storytelling tradition of the Deep South. Blair Underwood and Helen Shaver co-star.
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When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
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After the death of her husband, Jody and her daughter Samantha return to her home town. Sometimes she leaves Samantha with her old friend Winn. Only after an accident a doctor discovers that she has been abused - apparently by Winn! Jody reports immediately to the police and tries everything to avoid complications. But when it turns out that Winn still might win the case by some procedural tricks, she commits an act of desperation.
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Ao longo de três décadas, Stalin assume o poder da Rússia, trata a esposa terrivelmente e ordena atos de agressão contra seu próprio povo. Sem confiar em ninguém, o ditador age cruelmente até sua eventual queda e morte.
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Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a second identity and obviously doesn't want to be found. But since Shepard is strongly attracted to the pretty Valerie, he investigates further and gets involved more than professionally.
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Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Um conceituado e excêntrico médico e pesquisador há décadas se dedica a tentar fazer um clone da falecida esposa utilizando uma cultura de células dela. Ele vive apregoando o tempo todo a importância de "Algo Maior", com seu novo assistente ficando curioso sobre o termo. O professor consegue que uma jovem de 19 anos doe um óvulo para ele prosseguir no seu experimento de clonar a mulher. Ironicamente, a doadora desperta no pesquisador uma paixão que ele só tinha sentindo com a sua esposa. Paralelamente, seu assistente também se apaixona por ela e já pensa em se casar, mas algo trágico pode acabar com esta felicidade
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A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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Em uma noite chuvosa, o carro de Richard Bone (Bridges) quebra em um beco, ele então vê um carro misterioso surgir e um homem despeja algo em uma lata de lixo. No começo, Bone não pensa sobre o ocorrido e vai se encontrar com o seu amigo, Alex Cutter (Heard). No dia seguinte, uma jovem garota é encontrada brutalmente assassinada no mesmo beco onde Bone abandonou seu carro e torna-se o principal suspeito do crime. Bone vê o homem que acha que é o assassino em uma parada mais tarde naquele dia - o magnata local JJ Cord (Stephen Elliott) - Cutter começa a ter um interesse no mistério que se desenrola. Seu interesse logo se torna uma teoria da conspiração que se desenvolve em uma investigação incômoda com seu amigo cético e a irmã da garota morta (Ann Dusenberry).
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Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.
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Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
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Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
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In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
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In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
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A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
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A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
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The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However, the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. Workplace injuries, stolen prizes, a shortage of pretty girls... and fire.
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The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However, the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. Workplace injuries, stolen prizes, a shortage of pretty girls... and fire.
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Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
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Levando a sua jovem namorada da cidade de viagem, um homem visita antigos amigos musicais numa aldeia rural para um ensaio de um quarteto de cordas.
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Levando a sua jovem namorada da cidade de viagem, um homem visita antigos amigos musicais numa aldeia rural para um ensaio de um quarteto de cordas.
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Levando a sua jovem namorada da cidade de viagem, um homem visita antigos amigos musicais numa aldeia rural para um ensaio de um quarteto de cordas.
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Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
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Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
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Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
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Several parties—a prostitute, aging football players, working girls, two men playing pool, and a hedonistic young man—each coalesce in a tavern.
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Several parties—a prostitute, aging football players, working girls, two men playing pool, and a hedonistic young man—each coalesce in a tavern.
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A few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
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Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
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Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
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Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
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Fantasia, beleza e imaginação em uma bela alegoria poética. Os moradores de um vilarejo assistem ao espetáculo de um mágico e seu gato, que usa óculos e, quando os tira, tem o poder de mudar a cor das pessoas à sua volta de acordo com o caráter delas. O fato assusta os adultos do lugar, que vêem o animal como uma ameaça, mas, ao mesmo tempo, atrai todas as crianças da vila.
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Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.
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Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.
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In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish.
