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- Born in 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, Karel Reisz was sent to England in 1938 under the Kindertransport program because his father, a Jewish lawyer, feared the threatened Nazi incursion into the Sudetenland.
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He came to England in 1938, speaking almost no English, but eradicated his foreign accent as quickly as possible. [5] After attending Leighton Park School , he joined the Royal Air Force toward the end of the war; his parents were murdered at Auschwitz , which he learned after the war had ended.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1926, educated there until the German invasion, when his parents sent him to the UK, where he went to a Quaker school along with his brother; at the age of 17 joined the Czech air force, sent on a short course (six months) held at Cambridge, got his wings three weeks before the end of the war.
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...
Dec 1, 2002 · Karel Reisz, who died last week, lived the greatest part of his life in England, in fashionable parts of north London (with his wife, the black-listed actress, Betsy Blair – she had been...
Nov 28, 2002 · Born in 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, Karel Reisz was sent to England in 1938 under the Kindertransport program because his father, a Jewish lawyer, feared the threatened Nazi incursion...
Dec 12, 2002 · At one early point he had to abandon England because of the unions fucking things up and making it intolerable. I was a member of a trade union at 14 and knew already how they cut their own jobs from underneath them. Karel was in the tradition of the great black and white movie-makers.
Abstract. Karel Reisz began his career as a documentary filmmaker ( Momma Don’t Allow, 1956, with Tony Richardson) and producer ( Every Day Except Christmas, 1957; We Are the Lambeth Boys, 1959), directing films vital to the British movement known as “Free Cinema.”.
