The film Earth to Earth captures one working day of a group of gravel workers at the Kaliák gravel pit and dredgers and cutters at the Paskov mine in North Moravia. The workers are shown in an expressive way in tense moments of work, and in a civilian way in moments of rest and return from work. The movie marked the beginning of Ewald Schorm's collaboration with cinematographe...
The 2-part feature-length documentary "25 ze edesátych aneb eskoslovenská nová vlna" ("25 from the Sixties, or Czechoslovak New Wave") presents a complex view of the phenomenon of Czech and Slovak New Wave in the cultural and social context of the 60's. 25 fundamental films commented on by their makers and film historians offer the viewer a dramatic insight into the golden er...
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
This apocalyptic parable carries within it a clear echo of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. This unforgiving exploration of the Czech mentality tells the tale of a troupe of wandering actors who perform a passion play in some unnamed village. Fear of some unknown danger breaks out in the village, which is cut off from the surrounding world. Stupidity, selfishness and aggres...
