Evald Schorm Explained

Evald Schorm
Birth Date:15 December 1931
Birth Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Death Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation:Film director, screenwriter, actor
Yearsactive:1959–1988

Evald Schorm (15 December 1931  - 14 December 1988) was a Czech film and stage director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 26 films between 1959 and 1988. Schorm was a notable exponent of the Czech Film New Wave.[1] [2]

Biography

Schorm was born into a farmer family, and spent his childhood at the family farm in Elbančice near Mladá Vožice. After communists confiscated the family property, he was expelled from school and moved to Zličín near Prague, together with his parents. Schorm had to become a construction worker, but in 1956 he was finally accepted at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He graduated in Film direction in 1963, together with other future members of the Czech New Wave.[3] He began his career at the Studio dokumentárního filmu (Studio of the Documentary Film) together with cameraman Jan Špáta. Together they created many short films and documentaries of strong humanistic and emotional content, in close and long-lasting collaboration.[3]

In 1964, Schorm directed his first full-length film, Courage for Every Day which dealt with the disillusionment of individuals victimized in the name of false ideals.[3] He explored the ethical principles of human behavior in films such as the psychological drama The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966). He also acted minor roles in films made by his friends.

During the 1970s and 1980s he was regarded as too "politically undesirable" to be involved in Czech filmmaking, and therefore only worked as a stage director.[2] He was involved with many Prague theatres, such as Činoherní klub, Studio Ypsilon, Theatre on the Balustrade, Semafor, Laterna Magika, and the National Theatre as well as with theatres in Brno, Olomouc, Cheb and Gottwaldov. Schorm was also a notable opera director, and directed opera performances in Prague (Fidelio in Smetana Theatre), and at the Janáček Opera House Brno for posthumous premiere in 1971 of Martinů's film opera Les trois souhaits,[4] Geneva and Stuttgart. From 1982 he was engaged by the Prague theatre Laterna Magika.

From 1964 to 1970 he taught at the Film and Television School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1988, shortly before his death, he created his last film Vlastně se nic nestalo. In 1992, he was posthumously awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Filmography

Fiction film

Documentary

Television

Actor

Theatre direction

Činoherní klub Theatre:

Laterna Magika Theatre:

Ypsilon Theatre in Liberec

Malo kazalište Trešnja in Zagreb (1982)

References

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Reticent Guest Evald Schorm . 8 January 2009 . Festival of Czech Films Finále .
  2. Web site: Evald Schorm – The Theater Man . 8 January 2009 . www.karamazovi.cz . Jan Schmid . https://web.archive.org/web/20080505153707/http://karamazovi.cz/schorm_divadlo_a.html . 5 May 2008 . dead .
  3. Český film. Herci a herečky III. díl (S-Ž) (2008), p. 94
  4. Miloš Šafránek. Czechoslovakia - Martinů's opera-film. Opera, September 1971, Vol.22, No.9, p790-792.
  5. Panorama českého filmu (2000), p. 448
  6. Panorama českého filmu (2000), p. 449
  7. Web site: About the making of the movie "Joke" . https://archive.today/20110814231356/https://eos.praha.eu/jnp/en/extra/Year_68/film/about_the_making_of_the_movie_joke_.html . dead . 14 August 2011 . 8 January 2009 . Portal of Prague .

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