Evald Schorm Movies

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Kačer

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Kačer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pavla Maršálková

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pavla Maršálková

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Kačer

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vlastimil Brodský

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Čunderlíková

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vlastimil Brodský

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Čunderlíková

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eduard Cupák

A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, intercut with images of a Jewish cemetery.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Kačer

The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

Study of the work of the conductor Václav Neumann and his creative process with the orchestra.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Václav Neumann

Study of the work of the conductor Václav Neumann and his creative process with the orchestra.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Václav Neumann

Study of the work of the conductor Václav Neumann and his creative process with the orchestra.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Václav Neumann

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

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Cast: Iva Janžurová

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milena Dvorská

In creating the film, Evald Schorm and Jan Špáta took full advantage of the possibilities offered by the Cinemascope format and created...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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This is funny or rather crazy adaptation of classical opera Carmen inspired by famous czech theatre Ypsilon play of the same name shot at various...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zuzana Schmidová

Documentary portrait of Josef Sudek. The camera captures the famous photographer at work, during walks through the city and nature, waiting for the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Josef Sudek

A married couple in which he is the older and powerful one and she is young and charming. Their mutual teasing, fussing and bickering filled a royal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Werich

Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Trojan

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karel Höger

Genre: Romance

Cast: Milan Kňažko

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karel Höger

An exploration of the declining birth rate in the Czechoslovakia.

Genre: Documentary

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An exploration of the declining birth rate in the Czechoslovakia.

Genre: Documentary

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Blanka is an experienced and respected editor of a book publishing house, and she is currently working on a book by the young mountaineer Frantisek...

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

Genre: Documentary

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A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milena Dvorská

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heda Škrdlantová

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Václav Babka

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dana Medřická

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dana Medřická

Artistic reportage from the construction of the Orlík Reservoir. One day on the large-scale construction site and the roles of individual...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Josef Červinka

Artistic reportage from the construction of the Orlík Reservoir. One day on the large-scale construction site and the roles of individual...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Josef Červinka

Artistic reportage from the construction of the Orlík Reservoir. One day on the large-scale construction site and the roles of individual...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Josef Červinka

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dana Medřická

Genre: Music

Cast: Jana Jonášová

Genre: Music

Cast: Jan Kačer

In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlastimil Bedrna

In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlastimil Bedrna