Evald Schorm Movies

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...

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...

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

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

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...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

A story about the uproar caused by the arrival of a new, young and, by local standards, too energetic zookeeper in a village JZD. Her name is Maya...

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

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

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