Jan Němec
Known For
Directing
Born
1936-07-12 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died
2016-03-18
Biography
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."
Most Known For
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
Golden Sixties
as Self
Killing the Devil
as (uncreditted)
Horí
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
as Self
Corpus delicti
Oratorio for Prague
as Self
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
as self
Searching for Ester
as Himself
No Entrance
as (segment "In Pursuit")
Hranice
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Late Night Talks with Mother
as Jan Němec
An Occasion to Speak
as Self
Toyen
as Commentary (voice)
Flames of Royal Love
as (uncredited)
The Ferrari Dino Girl
Necklace of Melancholy
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
as Self
'68
as Dezsö Horváth