Czech Film Archive begins unboxing treasures from director Ivan Passer’s estate

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 12:12 p.m.

The National Film Archive announced this week that it has acquired the estate of Ivan Passer, one of the leading lights of cinema’s Czechoslovak New Wave. The archive received boxes stuffed with Passer’s diaries, letters and photographs, alongside annotated film screenplays – and recipes for Czech delicacies such as svíčková.