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Filmmaker · England

Karel Reisz

Died in 2002

Karel Reisz was born in Ostrava in 1926 and was sent as a child to England on a transport organised for Jewish children from Czechoslovakia; his parents did not survive the war. After the Royal Air Force, he taught, wrote a frequently reprinted manual on editing, and with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson founded Free Cinema, a movement of short documentaries. He then worked mainly in the United States, directed Meryl Streep and Jessica Lange, and died in London in 2002.

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