Evald Schorm Movies

A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

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...

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

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

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

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

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...

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

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

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance...

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...

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...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

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