Evald Schorm
Biography
At one time, Czech director Evald Schorm was known as "the conscience of the Czech New Wave" and was known for using film to promote notions of compassion, equality, and individualism in the face of social structure. Originally an opera singer, the Prague native studied filmmaking at the prestigious F.A.M.U. between 1957 and 1962. He went on to create documentaries with the Documentary Film Studio in Prague. Schorm also worked as a film actor. Following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communist government repressed his films. Still, Schorm remained in Czechoslovakia and directed opera, stage plays, and sometimes television shows. He returned to feature filmmaking in the late '80s, but died of heart failure in 1988.
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Movies (40)
The Karamazov Brothers
Theatre Play (Writing)
2008
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
Screenplay (Writing)
1990
Nothing Really Happened
Director (Directing)
1989
Ariadna
Stage Director (Directing)
1988
Oidipus Rex
Stage Director (Directing)
1988
Killing with Kindness
Director (Directing)
1988
Landscape with Furniture
as Professor
1987
Ilda
1984
Bratři Karamazovi
Theatre Play (Writing)
1981
Escape Home
as Hugo Jílek
1980
Etuda o zkoušce
Director (Directing)
1977
Bastion Promenade Seventy Four
as Rezsõ úr
1974
Úklady a láska
Director (Directing)
1971
Dogs and People
Director (Directing)
1971
Z mého života
Director (Directing)
1971
Lítost
Director (Directing)
1970
Confusion
Director (Directing)
1969
Prague Nights
Director (Directing)
1969
The Joke
as Kostka
1969
The End of a Priest
Director (Directing)
1969
Revenge
Director (Directing)
1969
Křepelky
Director (Directing)
1969
Seven Days to Remember
Cinematography (Crew)
1968
Carmen Not Only According to Bizet
Director (Directing)
1968
King and Women
Director (Directing)
1967
Five Girls Around the Neck
Screenplay (Writing)
1967
Hotel for Strangers
1967
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Director (Directing)
1967
The Party and the Guests
as Husband
1966
An Occasion to Speak
as Self
1966
Reflection
Screenplay (Writing)
1966
Pearls of the Deep
Director (Directing)
1966
Courage for Every Day
Director (Directing)
1965
Psalm
Director (Directing)
1965
Why?
Writer (Writing)
1964
Living Your Life
Director (Directing)
1963
Railwaymen
Screenplay (Writing)
1963
Stromy a lidé
Director (Directing)
1962
Spadla s měsíce
Assistant Director (Directing)
1961
Blok 15
Director (Directing)
1959