Jan Němec

Jul 12, 1936 - Mar 18, 2016 (79 years old) in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Jan Němec (12 July 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave."

Known For

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'68

Dezsö Horváth

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Hranice

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

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Toyen

Commentary (voice)

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No Entrance

(segment "In Pursuit")

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Murdering the Devil

(uncreditted)

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Necklace of Melancholy

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Corpus delicti

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Golden Sixties

Self

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Oratorio for Prague

Self

Credits

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History 2023

Self

★ 8
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street 2016

Self

★ 3.3
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ 2014

self

★ NR
The Ferrari Dino Girl 2009

★ 6
Golden Sixties 2009

Self

★ NR
Hranice 2006

★ 6
Toyen 2005

Commentary (voice)

★ 5
Searching for Ester 2005

Himself

★ NR
Late Night Talks with Mother 2003

Jan Němec

★ NR
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) 2000

★ NR
Corpus delicti 1991

★ 4.5
Flames of Royal Love 1991

(uncredited)

★ 4.2
'68 1988

Dezsö Horváth

★ 3.4
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988

Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

★ 6.9
Horí 1982

★ NR
Murdering the Devil 1970

(uncreditted)

★ 6.3
Oratorio for Prague 1968

Self

★ 7.1
Necklace of Melancholy 1968

★ NR
An Occasion to Speak 1966

Self

★ NR
No Entrance 1960

(segment "In Pursuit")

★ 6.5