Ivan Passer
[1] Passer attended King George boarding school in Poděbrady with future filmmakers Miloš Forman, Jerzy Skolimowski and Paul Fierlinger and playwright Václav Havel.[2] He began his career as an assistant director on Ladislav Helge's 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.Passer went on to make several prominent American films such as Born to Win (1971), a junkie drama starring George Segal and Karen Black,[7] and Cutter's Way (1981), a dramatic thriller starring Jeff Bridges and John Heard.Later in his career, he directed numerous films for television, most notably the award-winning biopic Stalin (1992) starring Robert Duvall for HBO.