Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 12, 1936
Died
March 18, 2016
Age
79
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Popularity
0.8
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
7.0
GEN
1993 · TV
6.8
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988 · Movie
0.0
GENUS
1995 · TV
0.0
Golden Sixties
2009 · TV
4.0
Deckname Holec
2016 · Movie
0.0
Heart Above the Castle
2008 · Movie
10.0
Landscape of my Heart
2004 · Movie
5.3
Martyrs of Love
1967 · Movie
6.8
The Party and the Guests
1966 · Movie
5.8
Killing the Devil
1970 · Movie
7.0
Diamonds of the Night
1964 · Movie
6.5
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
2025 · 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
6.9
1968
Necklace of Melancholy
Movie
8.0
1966
An Occasion to Speak
Movie · Self
0.0
1960
No Entrance
Movie · (segment "In Pursuit")
6.3