Evald Schorm
Evald SCHORM (1931-1988, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech filmmaker and a prominent part of the Czechoslovak New Wave. A peasant by birth, he was working as a construction worker in Prague when he was accepted into the FAMU Filmschool. After graduating in 1963, he directed his first film Courage for Everyday in 1964. During the 1970s and 1980s, he focused more on theatre and opera, as he was deemed too "undesirable" to continue directing films by the Czechoslovak communist regime. He directed his last film, In Fact, Nothing Happened (1989) shortly before his death at the age of 56 - but in 1992, after the fall of the communist regime, he was posthumously awarded with the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk for "outstanding contributions to the development of democracy, humanity and human rights" in the Czech Republic.
Filmography
(selection) Blok 15 (1959, short doc), Každý den odvahu/Courage For Everyday (1964), Perličky na dně/Pearls of the Deep (1965, segment Dům radosti/House of Joy), Návrat ztraceného syna/Return of the Prodigal Son (1966), Carmen nejen podle Bizeta/Carmen Not Only According To Bizet (1968, short doc), Farářův konec/End of a Priest (1969), Bratři Karamazovi/The Brothers Karamazov (1981, TV), Vlastně se nic nestalo/In Fact, Nothing Happened (1989)