Film director, screenwriter, actor and teacher. The most versatile Czech film maker, made famous by his film comedies in the 1930s and 40s.
Theatre and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer, who also made a career in Hollywood. One of the most popular Czech actors of the 1930s.
Czech film and theatre director, screenwriter and actor of Slovak origin. One of the most original artists in Czech cinematography of the 20th century, recognised abroad as well.
One of the commercially most successful contemporary Czech directors. He directs for film, television and theatre. His films are popular with the audience and characterised by a particular type of humour, hyperbole and a parody of the communist regime.
A prominent Czech-American screenwriter, film director, photographer and pedagogue. An important figure of the New Wave of Czechoslovak film. Holds numerous international awards, including the Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film in 2007.
One of the most prolific Czech film and TV directors. He was active from 1955 until as late as 2003, directing more than 50 feature films. His work is characterised by a powerful and sophisticated psychology of characters, and a closeness to the documentary style.
Czech film and television director and screenwriter of Slovak origin, regarded as a classic of Czech crime film. His is best known, however, for his comedy series about “poets”.
Prominent Czech film director, screenwriter and dramaturg, known as a collaborator of Ján Kadár. He also became famous abroad with The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), which was awarded an Oscar for best foreign-language film in 1965.
Film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and singer. One of the pioneers of Czech film and the first Czech director who established himself abroad as well.
Prominent Czech film director and screenwriter of the second half of the 20th century. Highly acclaimed both at home and abroad as creator of distinctive film comedies and parodies.
One of the most famous and widely acclaimed Czech directors, a prominent theatre director, active also as a theatre and film actor. In 1960s he was one of the most distinctive faces of the New Wave.
Important Czech director and screenwriter, one of the most important figures of the New Wave, also a painter, sculptor, caricaturist and writer. He worked with Miloš Forman and Ivan Passer.
Distinguished Czech director and screenwriter, famous abroad as well. One of the most acknowledged figures of the New Wave of Czechoslovak film.
One of the most successful and popular Czech film screenwriters and directors, and media entrepreneur. Author of popular family comedies in the 1970s and 80s.
World-famous Czech theatre and film director. One of the founders of the multimedia theatre Laterna magika.
15 December 1931, Elbančice – 14 December 1988, Prague
Prominent Czech film, TV and theatre director and scriptwriter of international repute. One of the most significant figures of the New Wave. Because of his innovative approach to film and theatre he was labelled “philosopher of the Czech New Wave”.
After studying directing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 1962 Evald Schorm worked at first in the Studio of Documentary Film, where his long collaboration with the cameraman Jan Špáta began. Their best documentaries include the short films Earth to Earth (Země zemi, 1962) and To Live Your Life (Žít svůj život, 1963) about the photographer Josef Sudek, and Reflection (Zrcadlení, 1965). Schorm gradually moved from documentaries and short films towards feature films. He created most of these between 1965 and 1969, but most of his films were censored and were banned until as late as 1990. The psychological films Courage for Every Day (Každý den odvahu, 1964), Return of the Prodigal Son (Návrat ztraceného syna, 1966) and the adaptation of Josef Škvorecký‘s novel The End of a Priest (Farářův konec, 1968) brought him international repute. After the parable The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (Den sedmý, osmá noc, 1969), inspired by the Soviet invasion in the August of 1968, he was banned from making any films, which made him focus on theatre directing. He worked in Prague’s Theatre on the Balustrade, The Drama Club, Semafor and Studio Ypsilon, but also in opera and in a number of theatres outside Prague. In 1974 he became director in the theatre Laterna magika, in which he masterfully combined theatrical and film devices. From 1982 he also collaborated with the drama ensemble of the National Theatre. One of his best stage productions was the adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov in Theatre on the Balustrade (TV recording was made in 1981).
Evald Schorm’s films are characterised by a unique capturing of individuals’ mental states and of social changes. It is heavily existentialist and clearly influenced by Franz Kafka’s works. As a theatre director, Schorm applied to actors a film approach to body movements and the visual appearance of the stage, educating thus an exceptional generation of actors. The Prague theatre Evald was named after Schorm. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk for his lifetime contribution to film and theatre.
Prominent Czech director, producer and screenwriter. One of the most distinguished and successful Czech film directors active after 1989, who is also internationally recognised and has received a number of foreign awards.
Film and theatre director, screenwriter, author of popular Czech fairy tales and rural comedies with typically popular humour. He has received the anti-award Plush Lion for worst film of the year twice.
One of the most important Czech film directors of the 20th century, screenwriter and teacher. One of the pioneers of Czech film making, significantly influencing Czech cinematography.
Czech film director and screenwriter, painter and graphic artist. One of the most interesting post-war Czech film makers, whose work was recognised around the world.
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