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