Jan Němec

Personal Info

Known ForDirecting

BornJuly 12, 1936

DiedMarch 18, 2016 (aged 79)

Place of BirthPrague, Czechoslovakia

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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

19 movies

3.7

Corpus delicti

1991

Necklace of Melancholy

1968

6.5

No Entrance

1960

5.0

Toyen

2005

6.9

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

6.0

The Ferrari Dino Girl

2009

3.1

'68

1988

Searching for Ester

2005

3.7

Flames of Royal Love

1991

6.0

Hranice

2006

7.1

Oratorio for Prague

1968

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

An Occasion to Speak

1966

5.6

Killing the Devil

1970

3.0

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

2016

8.0

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History

2023

Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)

2000

Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“

2014

Horí

1982