Karel Reisz
Polish-British director
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motion-picture history
- 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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