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Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s.
Karel Reisz was born on 21 July 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and producer, known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and Morgan! (1966). He was married to Betsy Blair and Julia Coppard.
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- Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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- London, England, UK
Karel Reisz was born on July 21, 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and producer, known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and Morgan! (1966). He was married to Betsy Blair and Julia Coppard.
- July 21, 1926
- November 25, 2002
Oct 25, 2018 · A key figure of both the Free Cinema documentary movement and the subsequent New Wave from the sixties, Reisz first found acclaim for the sort of ‘kitchen sink’ dramas about angry young men which were popular at the time.
Karel Reisz, an influential figure in British cinema’s new-realism movement whose best-known work as a director includes “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” “Isadora” and “The French...
At the insistence of his parents, he came to England when he was twelve, just before the Nazis invaded his country (his parents stayed behind and perished in a concentration camp). Reisz attended Leighton Park, a Quaker school in Reading, where David Lean had been educated a few years earlier.
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Nov 25, 2002 · Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema.
