Archive of films Courage for Every Day / Každý den odvahu
Czechoslovakia
1964, 86 min
Section:
Out of the Past
Year: 2023
Synopsis
Together with Jaromil Jireš’s The Joke, this directorial feature debut by Evald Schorm is the most incisive attempt to capture the all-pervasive moral enervation of Czech society in the early 1960s, when party bureaucracy prevailed and ideals simply became empty phrases. The victim here isn’t an opponent of the regime, but a loyal young labourer affiliated with the Socialist Youth Movement, who experiences a growing sense of painful disenchantment with the communist cause. This penetrating, psychological character study, heightened by a sober acting performance, renders the film a timeless statement of blind faith which, followed by disillusionment, leads to a destructive existential crisis. The film will be screened in its new, digitally restored version.
Zdena Škapová
About the director
Evald Schorm (1931–1988, Prague). Selected filmography: Why? (1964, doc.), Courage for Every Day (1964), Reflection (1965, doc.), Return of the Prodigal Son (1966), Saddled with Five Girls (1967), The End of a Priest (1968), The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969), Study of a Rehearsal (1976, doc.).
Contacts
Národní filmový archiv
Malešická 12, 130 00, Praha 3
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Black & white, DCP
Section: | Out of the Past |
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Director: | Evald Schorm |
Screenplay: | Antonín Máša |
Dir. of Photography: | Jan Čuřík |
Music: | Jan Klusák |
Sound: | František Šindelář, Bohumír Brunclík |
Editor: | Josef Dobřichovský |
Art Director: | Josef Ouzký |
Production: | Filmové studio Barrandov |
Cast: | Jana Brejchová, Jan Kačer, Josef Abrhám, Vlastimil Brodský, Jiřina Jirásková |
Sales: | Národní filmový archiv |
Guests
Jan Kačer
Actor
Ivan Šlapeta
Director of Photography