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.

Known For

The Joke

The Party and the Guests

Escape Home

Hotel for Strangers

Landscape with Furniture

Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

All Movies (9)

Landscape with Furniture1987 · as Professor
Ilda1984
Escape Home1980 · as Hugo Jílek
Bastion Promenade Seventy Four1974 · as Rezsõ úr
The Joke1969 · as Kostka
Hotel for Strangers1967
Hotel for Strangers1967 · as Curate
The Party and the Guests1966 · as Husband
An Occasion to Speak1966 · as Self

All TV Shows (1)

Golden Sixties2009 · as Self (archive footage)