Evald Schorm Movies

Mr. Dezső and Rezső are selecting the heroes for their new operetta. They represent different tastes and styles, and keep arguing about the...

Showing his own original footage of Prague Spring, director Evald Schorm describes the atmosphere these days in 1968.

A group of the bourgeois head for a prominent figure's birthday party. As they venture through the woods and have a picnic, they're suddenly...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the relativity of guilt, heroism and crime in the...

Artistic reportage from the construction of the Orlík Reservoir. One day on the large-scale construction site and the roles of individual...

This is funny or rather crazy adaptation of classical opera Carmen inspired by famous czech theatre Ypsilon play of the same name shot at various...

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...

Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

This work is a collaborative project by fourth-year students of directing, cinematography and production. Taking the form of a satirical and...

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm...

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

A veristic investigation into life at a boarding school for girls on the Czech-Polish border. The austere black and white camera captures everyday...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.