Synopsis
Karel Reisz was the founder of the Free Cinema movement in Great Britain. He was born before the beginning of WWI in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. At the age of 13 he managed to escape a Jewish pogrom thanks to the famous British businessman Nicholas Winton. He studied at Oxford and served in the air force during the war. After his military service in the Royal Air Force, he established himself as a film critic. In the 1970s, he moved his filmmaking to the US; there, however, he achieved but alternate success. Reisz's most famous film of the Hollywood period is The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Although the famous filmmaker comes from Ostrava, he never filmed anything there. However, his first films with a strong social accent are reminiscent of Ostrava.
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