Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 12, 1936
Died
March 18, 2016
Age
79
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Popularity
0.6
Jan Němec
Directing
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."
Also known as
Jan Němec Film
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Known For
6.8
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988 · Movie
0.0
GENUS
1995 · TV
7.0
GEN
1993 · TV
0.0
Golden Sixties
2009 · TV
6.8
The Party and the Guests
1966 · Movie
4.0
Deckname Holec
2016 · Movie
0.0
FAMU 80 – Best of
2026 · Movie
7.0
Seven Days to Remember
1968 · Movie
7.0
Diamonds of the Night
1964 · Movie
8.0
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000 · Movie
4.5
Corpus delicti
1991 · Movie
5.8
Pearls of the Deep
1966 · Movie
Filmography
2023
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
Movie · Self
8.0
2016
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
Movie · Self
2.8
2014
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
Movie · self
0.0
2009
The Ferrari Dino Girl
Movie
6.0
2009
Golden Sixties
TV · Self
0.0
2006
Hranice
Movie
6.0
2005
Toyen
Movie · Commentary (voice)
7.0
2005
Searching for Ester
Movie · Himself
8.0
2003
Late Night Talks with Mother
Movie · Jan Němec
8.0
2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Movie
8.0
1991
Corpus delicti
Movie
4.5
1991
Flames of Royal Love
Movie · (uncredited)
4.1
1988
'68
Movie · Dezsö Horváth
4.0
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Movie · Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
6.8
1982
Horí
Movie
0.0
1970
Killing the Devil
Movie · (uncreditted)
5.8
1968
Oratorio for Prague
Movie · Self
6.8
1968
Necklace of Melancholy
Movie
8.0
1966
An Occasion to Speak
Movie · Self
0.0
1960
No Entrance
Movie · (segment "In Pursuit")
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