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Ivan Passer, a leading Czech New Wave filmmaker, dies at 86

by AP Film Writer
| January 13, 2020 12:05 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Ivan Passer, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave who with Milos Forman fled Soviet-controlled Prague and forged a celebrated career in Hollywood, has died. He was 86.

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