Director
Evald Schorm
94 years · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic] · 19 films
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.
Best known for
The Joke
1969 · Kostka
On Klassiki
The Party and the Guests
1966 · Husband
On Criterion Channel
Pearls of the Deep
1966 · Director, Screenplay
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1967 · Screenplay, Director
Courage for Every Day
1965 · Director
On Criterion Channel
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
1990 · Screenplay, Director
Filmography 19
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
1990 · Screenplay, Director
Nothing Really Happened
1989 · Director
Killing with Kindness
1988 · Director
Landscape with Furniture
1987 · Professor
Escape Home
1980 · Hugo Jílek
Bastion Promenade Seventy Four
1974 · Rezsõ úr
Dogs and People
1971 · Director
Prague Nights
1969 · Director, Screenplay
On OVID
The Joke
1969 · Kostka
On Klassiki
The End of a Priest
1969 · Director, Screenplay
Five Girls Around the Neck
1967 · Screenplay, Director
Hotel for Strangers
1967 · Actor, Curate
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1967 · Screenplay, Director
The Party and the Guests
1966 · Husband
On Criterion Channel
Pearls of the Deep
1966 · Director, Screenplay
Courage for Every Day
1965 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Living Your Life
1963 · Director
Railwaymen
1963 · Director, Screenplay
Occasional Journal I
1961 · Director