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Jan Němec

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Birthdate

1936-07-12

Day of Death

2016-03-18

Place of Birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia

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."

Filmography (19)

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History

2023
⭐ 3.0 Role: Self

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

2016
⭐ 0 Role: self

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

2014
⭐ 6.0 Role: Unknown

The Ferrari Dino Girl

2009
No Image
⭐ 6.0 Role: Unknown

Hranice

2006
⭐ 7.0 Role: Commentary (voice)

Toyen

2005
⭐ 8.0 Role: Himself

Searching for Ester

2005
⭐ 8.0 Role: Jan Němec

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003
No Image
⭐ 8.0 Role: Unknown

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

2000
⭐ 4.5 Role: Unknown

Corpus delicti

1991
⭐ 4.1 Role: (uncredited)

Flames of Royal Love

1991
⭐ 4.0 Role: Dezsö Horváth

'68

1988
⭐ 6.9 Role: Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988
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⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Horí

1982
⭐ 5.7 Role: (uncreditted)

Killing the Devil

1970