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  • Silver Bears
  • Silver Bears review by A customer from Derby
    Rated - 5.0 stars New wave qualities: original humor 2 February 2008
    ...Silver Bears is one of the first US films of Ivan Passer after his emigration from the oppressed Czechoslovakia. He was among the few influential film-makers of the Czech ...   Read customer review

Ivan Passer - filmography


  • Creator on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  David Ogden Stiers,  Vincent Spano
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dr. Harry Wolper is an eccentric scientist, hoping to clone his dead wife. As he needs an egg and a host for this to take place - he first steals Boris, a new student assistant by promising him a co-ed's phone number. Then he hijacks new high tech equipment for his own research. In his search for a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 143 members
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  • Creator on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  David Ogden Stiers,  Vincent Spano
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter O'Toole is a lonely biologist who can not get over the death of his beloved wife. He plans a Frankenstein-like recreation of the deceased woman, using a few cells from her body. To complete the resurrection he needs a human egg, which he receives from his lab assistant (Mariel Hemingway). ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 16 members
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  • Cutter's Way on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Ann Dusenberry,  Jeff Bridges,  John Heard
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After emigrating to the United States in 1969, Czech-born director Ivan Passer finally broke through to American audiences with his fourth film, a unique blend of mystery and social commentary. Cutter's Way is set in Santa Barbara, CA, a community of wealth and power. Its main characters, however, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,243 member
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  • Silver Bears on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Louis Jourdan,  Stephane Audran
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Michael Caine and Cybil Sheperd star in this comedy set in the world of high finance. A Las Vegas money expert is sent by the mafia to supervise the running of a Swiss bank bought to launder their profits. But arriving in Lugano, he discovers Prince Di Siracusa has misappropriated the bank purchase ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 99 members
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  • Born To Win on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  George Segal,  Hector Elizondo
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama starring George Segal as an ex-hairdresser who struggles to support his expensive drug habit and to avoid arrest, turns 'narc', informing on his fellow junkies. Eventually Segal's sense of self-hatred threatens to overwhelm him.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 300 members
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  • Intimate Lighting on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Zdenek Bezusek,  Karel Blazek,  Miroslav Cvrk
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Filmed in 1965 and released internationally in 1969, Intimate Lighting (Intimni osvetleni) was an impressive first feature from Czech director Ivan Passer. A young Prague cellist (Zdnek Bazusek) and his sophisticated girlfriend (Vera Kresadlova) visit some friends in a bucolic village. The cellist ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 297 members
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Ivan Passer facts

5 most recent films

Nomad - The Warrior - 2.5 stars
Creator - 2.5 stars
Creator - 2.0 stars
Cutter's Way - 3.0 stars
Silver Bears - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Intimate Lighting - 3.0 stars
Cutter's Way - 3.0 stars
Silver Bears - 3.0 stars
Audition / Talent Show - 3.0 stars
Nomad - The Warrior - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Creator - 2.0 stars
Born To Win - 2.0 stars
Creator - 2.5 stars
Nomad - The Warrior - 2.5 stars
Audition / Talent Show - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Karel Blazek - 2 times - show films
George Segal - 2 times - show films
Vincent Spano - 2 times - show films
Miroslav Cvrk - 2 times - show films
Hector Elizondo - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sergei Bodrov - 1 times - show films
Talgat Temenov - 1 times - show films
Milos Forman - 1 times - show films