Czech Republic,
2012, 76 min
(TV version: 58 min)
Directed by:
Petra VšelichováScreenplay:
Petra VšelichováCinematography:
Patrik HoznauerCast:
Karel Reisz (a.f.), Věroslav Hába, Walter Lassally, Gavin Millar, Carl Davis, Stephen Frears, Lorenza MazzettiPlots(1)
A documentary film about Karel Reisz, next to Miloš Forman the most famous filmmaker of Czech origin. The film captures an interesting personal and professional story of a man who used his childhood in Ostrava and Czechoslovakia as the foundation for the establishment of Free Cinema and the British New Wave. The Free Cinema films are a valuable legacy – fascinating, beautiful, sometimes hopeful and often sad, but always authentic. In his first films the substantial influence of Ostrava can be seen, a city that is fascinating, often sad, but full of life and truth. A city that formed his cinematic poetry. (official distributor synopsis)
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