Karel Reisz
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Karel Reisz (born July 21, 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, United Kingdom, November 252002) was one of the most important filmmakers in post–war Britain.
Reisz was a Jew refugee, one of the 669 rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton. After attending Leighton Park School, he joined the Royal Air Force towards the end of the war, after the death of his parents at Auschwitz. After the war, he studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, and began to write for film journals, including Sight and Sound. He co-founded Sequence with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert in 1947.
He was also a founder member of the Free Cinema documentary movement. His first short film, Momma Don't Allow, co-directed with Tony Richardson, was included in the first Free Cinema programme shown at the National Film Theatre in February 1956. Three years later, his film We Are the Lambeth Boys was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the leisure life of...
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