Evald Schorm
Evald Schorm | |
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Born | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 15 December 1931
Died | 14 December 1988 Prague, Czechoslovakia | (aged 56)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
Years active | 1959–1988 |
Evald Schorm (15 December 1931 – 14 December 1988) was a Czech film and stage director,
Biography
Schorm was born into a farmer family, and spent his childhood at the family farm in Elbančice near
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.. 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
- The Tourist (1961) - short film
- Railwaymen (1963) - short film
- Courage for Every Day (1964)
- Pearls of the Deep (1965) - Segment House of Joy, based on Bohumil Hrabal's work
- The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
- Left with Five Girls (1967)
- End of a Priest (1969)
- The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969)
- Dogs and People (1971)
- Nothing Really Happened (1988)
Documentary
- Blok 15 (1959) - a documentary on construction workers at the Orlík Dam
- Kostelník (1961)
- Jan Konstantin, zasloužilý umělec (1961) - on the National Theatre singer Jan Konstantin
- Země zemi (1962)
- Stromy a lidé (1962)
- Žít svůj život (1963) - a short film about the Czech photographer Josef Sudek.[5]
- Proč? (1964)
- Reflection (1965)
- Odkaz (1965)
- Žalm (1966) - a montage of stills from the Jewish people.[6]
- Carmen nejen podle Bizeta (1968)
- Etuda o zkoušce (1976)
Television
- Král a žena (1967)
- Rozhovory (1969)
- Lítost (1970)
- Úklady a láska (1971)
- Lepší pán (1971)
- Král jelenem (1977)
- The Brothers Karamazov (1981)
Actor
- Hotel for Strangers (1967)
- A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
- The Joke - based on the novel by Milan Kundera, directed by Jaromil Jireš (1968)[7]
- Útěky domů (1980)
- Krajina s nábytkem (1986)
Theatre direction
Činoherní klub Theatre:
- Zločin a trest (Crime and Punishment)
- Hodinový hoteliér
- Láska v barvách karnevalu
- Kouzelný cirkus (A Magic Circus) - Schorm was also author of the script
- Sněhová královna (The Snow Queen) - Schorm was also author of the script
- Noční zkouška -
- Černý mnich -
- Oddyseus (Ulysses) - Schorm was also author of the script
Ypsilon Theatre in Liberec
- Comedy, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning
- The Eternal Husband
- Thirteen Scents
- The Twelve Chairs
Malo kazalište Trešnja in Zagreb (1982)
- Braća Karamazovi (The Brothers Karamazov) - Schorm was also author of the dramatization
Notes
- ^ "The Reticent Guest Evald Schorm". Festival of Czech Films Finále. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- ^ a b Jan Schmid. "Evald Schorm – The Theater Man". www.karamazovi.cz. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- ^ a b c Český film. Herci a herečky III. díl (S-Ž) (2008), p. 94
- ^ Miloš Šafránek. Czechoslovakia - Martinů's opera-film. Opera, September 1971, Vol.22, No.9, p790-792.
- ^ Panorama českého filmu (2000), p. 448
- ^ Panorama českého filmu (2000), p. 449
- ^ "About the making of the movie "Joke"". Portal of Prague. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
References
- Fikejz, Miloš (2008). Český film. Herci a herečky III. díl (S-Ž) (in Czech). Prague: Libri. ISBN 978-80-7277-353-4.
- Ptáček, Luboš, ed. (2000). Panorama českého filmu (in Czech). Olomouc: Rubico. ISBN 80-85839-54-7.
Further reading
- Grapko, Andrea Marea (2005). Director Evald Schorm : subversion of classic theatre texts as a means of political dissent in the Czech lands (Thesis/dissertation). University of Colorado. ProQuest 305008958.
- Fryš, Miloš (1992). Filmy Evalda Schorma (in Czech). Prague: Český filmový ústav. ISBN 80-7004-063-7.
- Bernard, Jan (1994). Evald Schorm a jeho filmy: odvahu pro všední den (in Czech). Prague: Primus. ISBN 80-85625-27-X.
- Denemarková, Radka (1998). Evald Schorm: sám sobě nepřítelem (in Czech). Prague: Nadace Divadla Na zábradlí. ISBN 80-238-3679-X.