Evald Schorm

Directing Dec 15, 1931 Dec 14, 1988 (aged 57) Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

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.

10 Acting Credits

32 Crew Credits

Evald Schorm

Acting

The Joke

The Party and the Guests

Hotel for Strangers

Hotel for Strangers

Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

Landscape with Furniture

Escape Home

An Occasion to Speak

Ilda

Golden Sixties

Crew

Pearls of the Deep

The Karamazov Brothers

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Courage for Every Day

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

Prague Nights

Reflection

The End of a Priest

Five Girls Around the Neck

Revenge

Nothing Really Happened

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