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Karel Reisz

Film Director / Film Producer / Writer / Screenwriter / Theatre Director | * 07/21/1926 († 76, 11/25/2002) | Ostrava (Czechoslovakia)
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. 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). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

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A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all. ...

Night Must Fall

NR

1964 | 3.6/5 | 1h 32min
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A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married. ...

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

NR

1960 | 3.5/5 | 1h 30min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leon ...

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

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1966 | 3.1/5 | 1h 37min
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in s ...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

R

1981 | 3.2/5 | 2h 4min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Karel Reisz

BAFTA Award for Best Film
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Movies with Karel Reisz as Actor(1)

as himself2001 Síla lidskosti - Nicholas Winton

Movies with Karel Reisz as Crew(17)

Directing/Director2000 Act Without Words I
Directing/Director1994 The Deep Blue Sea
Directing/Director1990 Everybody Wins
Directing/Director1985 Sweet Dreams
Directing/Director1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman
Directing/Director1978 Who'll Stop the Rain
Directing/Director1974 The Gambler
Directing/Director1968 Isadora
Directing/Director1966 Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Directing/Director1964 Night Must Fall
Production/Producer1963 This Sporting Life
Directing/Director1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Directing/Director1959 We Are the Lambeth Boys
Directing/Director1959 March to Aldermaston
Production/Producer1957 Every Day Except Christmas
Directing/Director1956 Momma Don't Allow
Writing/Writer1956 Momma Don't Allow

Full Name: Karel Reisz
Born: Wednesday, 07/21 1926 (July) in Ostrava (Czechoslovakia)
Died: Monday, 11/25 2002 (November) in Camden Town (aged: 76)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Emmanuel College, Leighton Park School
Spouses (current/former): Betsy Blair
Karel Reisz frequently works together with these people:
Leon Clore (4x, Crew)
Lindsay Anderson (4x, Crew)
John Fletcher (4x, Crew)
Tony Richardson (3x, Crew)
Walter Lassally (3x, Crew)
John Dankworth (3x, Crew)
Vanessa Redgrave (2x, Actress)
David Warner (2x, Actor)
Michael Haley (2x, Crew)
Laurence Rosenthal (2x, Crew)
Robert Stone (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:111423, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 04/24/2024