Out of the Past 2023 / Každý den odvahu / Czechoslovakia 1964
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
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
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.).
Národní filmový archiv
Závišova 5, 140 00, Praha 4
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
Jan Kačer
Actor
Ivan Šlapeta
Director of Photography
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