Jan Němec
- Directing
- July 12, 1936 · Prague, Czechoslovakia
- March 18, 2016
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
Filmography
- A Loaf of Bread · Director, Screenplay
- FAMU 80 – Best of · Director
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut · Writer
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History · Self
- The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street · Self, Writer
- Deckname Holec · Story
- Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ · Self
- Heart Beat 3D · Director, Writer
- The Ferrari Dino Girl · Director, Writer
- Golden Sixties · Self
- Heart Above the Castle · Director, Screenplay
- Hranice
- Toyen · Commentary (Voice), Director
- Searching for Ester · Self
- Landscape of my Heart · Director, Screenplay
- Late Night Talks with Mother · Jan Němec, Director
- Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
- Code Name: Ruby · Director, Producer
- GENUS · Director, Writer
- GEN · Director, Writer
- Corpus delicti
- Flames of Royal Love · (uncredited), Director
- The Strahov Demonstration · Director
- '68 · Dezsö Horváth
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being · Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
- Horí
- Metamorphosis · Director, Writer
- Das Rückendekolleté · Director, Writer
- Killing the Devil · (uncreditted), Screenplay
- Proudy lásku odnesou · Story, Director
- Čas slunce a růží · Director
- Oratorio for Prague · Self, Director
- Necklace of Melancholy · Director, Screenplay
- Seven Days to Remember · Cinematography
- Martyrs of Love · Screenplay, Story
- The Party and the Guests · Screenplay, Director
- An Occasion to Speak · Self
- Pearls of the Deep · Director, Screenplay
- Diamonds of the Night · Screenplay, Director
- A Memory for the Present · Writer, Director
- Červnové dny · First Assistant Director
- The Day the Tree Blooms · Assistant Director
- Osení · Assistant Director
- No Entrance · (segment "In Pursuit")
- Povodeň · Assistant Director
- Arnost Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Nemec · Director