Jan Němec
Known for DirectingBorn 1936-07-12 — died 2016-03-18Prague, Czechoslovakia
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
1988 · as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
Corpus delicti
1991
The Ferrari Dino Girl
2009
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
2016 · as Self
An Occasion to Speak
1966 · as Self
Killing the Devil
1970 · as (uncreditted)
Late Night Talks with Mother
2003 · as Jan Němec
Horí
1982
No Entrance
1960 · as (segment "In Pursuit")
Flames of Royal Love
1991 · as (uncredited)
Oratorio for Prague
1968 · as Self
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000
Searching for Ester
2005 · as Himself
'68
1988 · as Dezsö Horváth
Toyen
2005 · as Commentary (voice)
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
2014 · as self
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
2023 · as Self
Hranice
2006