Jan Němec

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

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Late Night Talks with Mother

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

Killing the Devil

'68

Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“

Oratorio for Prague

Searching for Ester

All Movies (19)

• Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History2023 · as Self
• The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street2016 · as Self
• Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“2014 · as self
• The Ferrari Dino Girl2009
• Hranice2006
• Toyen2005 · as Commentary (voice)
• Searching for Ester2005 · as Himself
• Late Night Talks with Mother2003 · as Jan Němec
• Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)2000
• Corpus delicti1991
• Flames of Royal Love1991 · as (uncredited)
• '681988 · as Dezsö Horváth
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988 · as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
• Horí1982
• Killing the Devil1970 · as (uncreditted)
• Oratorio for Prague1968 · as Self
• Necklace of Melancholy1968
• An Occasion to Speak1966 · as Self
• No Entrance1960 · as (segment "In Pursuit")

All TV Shows (1)

• Golden Sixties2009 · as Self