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.

Directed

1. Pearls of the Deep (1966) — Director
2. The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) — Director
3. Courage for Every Day (1965) — Director
4. The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1990) — Director
5. Prague Nights (1969) — Director
6. Reflection (1966) — Director
7. The End of a Priest (1969) — Director
8. Five Girls Around the Neck (1967) — Director
9. Revenge (1969) — Director
10. Nothing Really Happened (1989) — Director
11. Lítost (1970) — Director
12. Living Your Life (1963) — Director
13. King and Women (1967) — Director
14. Why? (1964) — Director
15. Dogs and People (1971) — Director
16. Railwaymen (1963) — Director
17. Psalm (1965) — Director
18. Etuda o zkoušce (1977) — Director
19. Stromy a lidé (1962) — Director
20. Carmen Not Only According to Bizet (1968) — Director
21. Z mého života (1971) — Director
22. Confusion (1969) — Director
23. Blok 15 (1959) — Director
24. Křepelky (1969) — Director
25. Úklady a láska (1971) — Director
26. Killing with Kindness (1988) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Joke (1969) — Kostka
2. The Party and the Guests (1966) — Husband
3. Hotel for Strangers (1967)
4. Bastion Promenade Seventy Four (1974) — Rezsõ úr
5. Landscape with Furniture (1987) — Professor
6. Escape Home (1980) — Hugo Jílek
7. An Occasion to Speak (1966) — Self
8. Ilda (1984)
9. Golden Sixties (2009) — Self (archive footage)