Person

Jan Němec

Directing · 1936–2016 · Prague, Czechoslovakia

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."

Known for

Filmography

2025Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic CutWriter
2023Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of HistorySelf
2016The Wolf from Royal Vineyard StreetSelf
2016Deckname HolecStory
2014Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“self
2010Heart Beat 3DDirector
2009The Ferrari Dino Girl
2009Golden SixtiesSelf
2008Heart Above the CastleDirector
2006Hranice
2005ToyenCommentary (voice)
2005Searching for EsterHimself
2004Landscape of my HeartDirector
2003Late Night Talks with MotherJan Němec
2000Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
1996Code Name: RubyDirector
1995GENUSDirector
1993GENDirector
1991Corpus delicti
1991Flames of Royal Love(uncredited)
1990The Strahov DemonstrationDirector
1988'68Dezsö Horváth
1988The Unbearable Lightness of BeingCameraman filming the tanks in Prague
1982Horí
1975MetamorphosisDirector
1975Das RückendekolletéDirector
1970Killing the Devil(uncreditted)
1969Proudy lásku odnesouStory
1968Čas slunce a růžíDirector
1968Oratorio for PragueSelf
1968Necklace of Melancholy
1968Seven Days to RememberCinematography
1967Martyrs of LoveScreenplay
1966The Party and the GuestsScreenplay
1966An Occasion to SpeakSelf
1966Pearls of the DeepDirector
1964Diamonds of the NightScreenplay
1963A Memory for the PresentWriter
1961Červnové dnyFirst Assistant Director
1961The Day the Tree BloomsAssistant Director
1961OseníAssistant Director
1960No Entrance(segment "In Pursuit")
1960A Loaf of BreadDirector
1958PovodeňAssistant Director
—Arnost Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan NemecDirector

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