Flashback '68: Evald Schorm and Social Conscience Cinema

Czech director Evald Schorm was known for using his films to promote notions of compassion, equality, and individualism. Perhaps surprisingly, he started out as an opera singer, then studied filmmaking at the prestigious F.A.M.U. in his native Prague between 1957 and 1962. He went on to create documentaries with the Documentary Film Studio in Prague and had an excellent oeuvre cut short by the Russian invasion. End of a Priest was the film he made in the year the tanks rolled in and is testament to his talent and point of view. Read the film review here