As Director
Nothing Really Happened
1989
3.0
Evald Schorm
Acting
Birth date
December 15, 1931
Birth place
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Death date
December 14, 1988
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.
Featured in
As Actor
Landscape with Furniture
1987
4.2
As Actor
Escape Home
1980
6.0
As Director, As Writer
Prague Nights
1969
5.4
As Actor
The Joke
1969
6.5
As Director, As Writer
The End of a Priest
1969
6.1
As Director, As Writer
Five Girls Around the Neck
1967
6.8
As Actor
Hotel for Strangers
1967
5.8
As Actor
The Party and the Guests
1966
6.9
As Director, As Writer
Pearls of the Deep
1966
6.0
As Director
Courage for Every Day
1965
5.9
As Director, As Writer
Railwaymen
1963
8.0