Jan Němec

Directing

July 12, 1936

Prague, Czechoslovakia

19 movies

5.3 avg

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."

Best Performances

Highest rated appearances

6.8

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

Filmography

2020s

1 film

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History

as Self

20238.0

2010s

2 films

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

as Self

20162.8

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

as self

2014

2000s

6 films

The Ferrari Dino Girl

20096.0

Hranice

20066.0

Toyen

as Commentary (voice)

20057.0

Searching for Ester

as Himself

20058.0

Late Night Talks with Mother

as Jan Němec

20038.0

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

20008.0

1990s

2 films

Corpus delicti

19914.5

Flames of Royal Love

as (uncredited)

19914.1

1980s

3 films

'68

as Dezsö Horváth

19884.0

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

19886.8

Horí

1982

1970s

1 film

Killing the Devil

as (uncreditted)

19705.8

1960s

4 films

Oratorio for Prague

as Self

19686.9

Necklace of Melancholy

19688.0

An Occasion to Speak

as Self

1966

No Entrance

as (segment "In Pursuit")

19606.3