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Courage for Every Day

Out of the Past 2023 / Každý den odvahu / Czechoslovakia 1964

Courage for Every Day Courage for Every Day

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 film

86 min / Black & white, DCP

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

About the director

Evald Schorm

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.).

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Národní filmový archiv
Závišova 5, 140 00, Praha 4
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E-mail: [email protected]

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Jan Kačer
Actor

Ivan Šlapeta
Director of Photography

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