Jan Němec

Directing

Born July 12, 1936 · Prague, Czechoslovakia

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 · 20 titles

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

Golden Sixties

2009

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

2016

Killing the Devil

1970

Searching for Ester

2005

The Ferrari Dino Girl

2009

Late Night Talks with Mother

Flames of Royal Love

No Entrance

'68

An Occasion to Speak

Corpus delicti

Oratorio for Prague

Horí

Hranice

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History

2023

Necklace of Melancholy

1968

Toyen

2005

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