Evald Schorm
Born: 1931-12-15 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Died: 1988-12-14
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2009
- Golden Sixties as Self (archive footage)
2008
- The Karamazov Brothers ... (Theatre Play)
1990
- The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night ... (Screenplay)
1989
- Nothing Really Happened ... (Director)
1988
- Oidipus Rex ... (Stage Director)
- Ariadna ... (Stage Director)
- Killing with Kindness ... (Director)
1987
- Landscape with Furniture as Professor
1984
1981
- Bratři Karamazovi ... (Theatre Play)
1980
- Escape Home as Hugo Jílek
1977
- Etuda o zkoušce ... (Director)
1974
- Bastion Promenade Seventy Four as Rezsõ úr
1971
- Dogs and People ... (Director)
- Z mého života ... (Director)
- Úklady a láska ... (Director)
1970
- Lítost ... (Director)
1969
- The End of a Priest ... (Director)
- The Joke as Kostka
- Prague Nights ... (Director)
- Revenge ... (Director)
- Křepelky ... (Director)
- Confusion ... (Director)
1968
- Seven Days to Remember ... (Cinematography)
- Carmen Not Only According to Bizet ... (Director)
1967
- Hotel for Strangers
- The Return of the Prodigal Son ... (Director)
- Five Girls Around the Neck ... (Screenplay)
- King and Women ... (Director)
1966
- Pearls of the Deep ... (Director)
- Reflection ... (Screenplay)
- The Party and the Guests as Husband
- An Occasion to Speak as Self
1965
- Courage for Every Day ... (Director)
- Psalm ... (Director)
1964
- Why? ... (Writer)
1963
- Railwaymen ... (Screenplay)
- Living Your Life ... (Director)
1962
- Stromy a lidé ... (Director)
1961
- Spadla s měsíce ... (Assistant Director)
1959
- Blok 15 ... (Director)