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Jan Němec

Jan Němec

Born: 1936-07-12 • Prague, Czechoslovakia

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."

Filmography
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History poster
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
2023 • Self
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street poster
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
2016 • Self
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ poster
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
2014 • self
The Ferrari Dino Girl poster
The Ferrari Dino Girl
2009
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Hranice
2006
Toyen poster
Toyen
2005 • Commentary (voice)
Searching for Ester poster
Searching for Ester
2005 • Himself
Late Night Talks with Mother poster
Late Night Talks with Mother
2003 • Jan Němec
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Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000
Corpus delicti poster
Corpus delicti
1991
Flames of Royal Love poster
Flames of Royal Love
1991 • (uncredited)
'68 poster
'68
1988 • Dezsö Horváth
The Unbearable Lightness of Being poster
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988 • Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
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Horí
1982
Killing the Devil poster
Killing the Devil
1970 • (uncreditted)
Oratorio for Prague poster
Oratorio for Prague
1968 • Self
Necklace of Melancholy poster
Necklace of Melancholy
1968
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An Occasion to Speak
1966 • Self
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No Entrance
1960 • (segment "In Pursuit")