One on One Ivan Passer: Czech new wave filmmaker at helm of Karlovy Vary jury
My guest for this edition of One on One is Ivan Passer, who this week received a Crystal Globe in Karlovy Vary for his lifelong contribution to world cinema. The president of this year’s festival jury fled communist Czechoslovakia in 1968, after directing what has been voted one of the best Czech films ever made – ‘Intimate Lighting’ is a black-and-white new wave classic telling the story of two friends reunited. In more recent years, Passer has worked in Hollywood, producing movies such as ‘Cutter’s Way’ and ‘Stalin’ to much critical acclaim. He was back in the Czech Republic last week some 40 years after going into exile. But, as he told me in a quiet hotel bar in Karlovy Vary, this was far from his first visit back to his homeland:
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