Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:32:18 +0200A good film should be comprehensible with the volume off, says Oscar-winning cameraman Walter Lassallyhttps://english.radio.cz/a-good-film-should-be-comprehensible-volume-says-oscar-winning-cameraman-walter-8258448© 2026 Radio Prague International German-born cameraman Walter Lassally worked on some of the greatest films produced in the British New Wave of the 1960s, including classics such as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and A Taste of Honey. The recipient of an Oscar for Zorba the Greek, he also has some Czech connections, including shooting the movie The Clown with his friend Vojtěch Jasný. Lassally (88), who was in Prague last week for the Cinematographers Days festival, made documentaries early in his career as part of the ground-breaking Free Cinema movement – so I asked him what he had taken from that form to his work on feature films. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/lassally_walter.jpg?timestamp=1590691230 A good film should be comprehensible with the volume off, says Oscar-winning cameraman Walter Lassally https://english.radio.cz/a-good-film-should-be-comprehensible-volume-says-oscar-winning-cameraman-walter-8258448 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9