Trivia

Prague's cinema Evald is named after Evald Schorm.

In 1992, he was awarded the Order of the TGM, fourth class, in memoriam.

He worked as a documentary filmmaker for three years.

Evald Schorm was a Czech film and theater director .

He came from a peasant family, but after the communists confiscated his family's property, he worked in blue-collar jobs.

He belongs to the so-called New Wave of Czech film from the early 1960s and is generally considered a very distinctive and extraordinary creative personality of Czech film and theater.

His work for "Prague's Laterna magika", the opuses Kouzelny circus , Odysseus (with music by Michael Kocáb ) were also significant .

During his basic military service, he sang in Vít Nejedlý's Army Art Ensemble .

After a twenty-year ban on filming films, he was allowed to film Nothing Actually Happened, but he was unable to attend the premiere itself.

In 1957, thanks to a certain political relaxation, he joined Karel Kachyn to study feature film directing at FAMU , where he studied under the guidance of Otakar Vávra .

Schorm directed operas (Martinu Troji prácni, 1971) and gradually penetrated all the small generational theaters typical of the 1970s and 1980s: the Drama Studio in Ústi nad Labem, in Prague Theater on the Edge, and above all Theater on the Railings (1976-87).

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was mainly interested in theater. He directed around eighty productions on theater and opera stages in Prague and outside Prague (e.g. in the first half of the 1970s at the State Theater Brno ), but he also directed abroad (1980 Stuttgart, 1986 Marseille and Detroit ).

In 1969, he completed his own film response to the Soviet occupation, Seventh Day - Eighth Night ; the film was no longer allowed to be shown and the audience saw it for the first time in 1990.

After 1968, as a result of normalization, he was forbidden to film (he was then only allowed to complete the film directed by Vojtech Jasny: "Dogs and People" ).

The bulk of his five feature films from the 1960s ended up in a vault for many decades and were not allowed to be shown at all.