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Evald Schorm

Czechoslovakia, 1968, 36 Min

A documentary showing the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and the spontaneous demonstrations of the civilian population on 21 August 1968. The dramatic footage was shot clandestinely by Stanislav Milota, illegally edited by Evald Schorm, and first shown in public in 1990.

Filmformat
35mm | s/w / b/w

Kamera
Stanislav Milota

Schnitt
Vlasta Styblíková

Produzent
Jaromír Kallista

Produktion
Filmové Studio Barrandov, Krátký Film Praha

Kontakt
Národní filmový archiv
Malešícká 12
13000 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Tel: +420.271.770 509
Fax: +420.271.770 501
nfa@nfa.cz
www.nfa.cz

Evald Schorm - born 1931 in Prague; died 1988 in Prague. He studied at FAMU, Prague from 1957 to 1962. His films were banned after the crushing of the Prague Spring. Schorm remained in the ČSSR, where he continued to produce operas and plays, television dramas, and feature films.

Movies
ŽELEZNIČÁŘI (1963, short, doc)
KAŽDÝ DEN ODVAHU (1964, short)
PERLIČKY NA DNĚ (1966)
NÁVRAT ZTRACENÉHO SYNA (1966)
ZERT (1968)
DEN SEDMÝ, OSMÁ NOC (1969)
FARÁŘŮV KONEC (1969)
PSI A LIDÉ (1970)
MĚSTO MÉ NADĚJE (1978)
VLASTNĚ SE NIC NESTALO (1989)

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