Karel Reisz

✶July 21, 1926

†November 25, 2002

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About their life

Karel Reisz 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. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).

Czech-born British director, producer, film theorist, theatre director (1926-2002)

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