Evald Schorm
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.
The Joke
as KostkaIn the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow...
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A Report on the Party and the Guests
as HusbandA picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious...
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Hotel for Strangers
as uncreditedA gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long...
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Hotel for Strangers
as CurateA gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long...
Movie pageEscape Home
as Hugo JílekA twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was...
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Landscape with Furniture
as ProfessorThe story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing...
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Landscape with Furniture
as FrantisekThe story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing...
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as Rezsõ úrMr. Dezső and Rezső are selecting the heroes for their new operetta. They represent different...
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