Karel Reisz

Polish-British director

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motion-picture history

  • Vitascope
    In History of film: Great Britain

    …Social Realist, movement signaled by Reisz’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), the first British postwar feature with a working-class protagonist and proletarian themes. Stylistically influenced by the New Wave, with which it was concurrent, the Social Realist film was generally shot in black-and-white on location in the industrial Midlands…

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“Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”