Jan Němec

Personal Info

Birthday

July 12, 1936

Day of Death

2016-03-18

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Also Known As

Jan Němec Film

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

Murdering the Devil

Toyen

Flames of Royal Love

Late Night Talks with Mother

No Entrance

'68

Filmography

2023
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
as Self
2016
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
as Self
2014
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
as self
2005
Toyen
as Commentary (voice)
Searching for Ester
as Himself
2003
Late Night Talks with Mother
as Jan Němec
1991
Flames of Royal Love
as (uncredited)
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
'68
as Dezsö Horváth
1970
Murdering the Devil
as (uncreditted)
1968
Oratorio for Prague
as Self
1966
An Occasion to Speak
as Self
1960
No Entrance
as (segment "In Pursuit")