Jan Němec
Birthday: 1936-07-12
Place of Birth: 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."
Movies
Hranice
Story of a man who, at the end of the 1940s, attempted to cross the Czechoslovak border illegally li...
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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
The unique and enigmatic journey of the writer Milan Kundera: from communist Czechoslovakia to exile...
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Oratorio for Prague
A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about t...
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An Occasion to Speak
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965....
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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmma...
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Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a c...
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Searching for Ester
Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of ...
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Killing the Devil
A lonely woman gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing Mr Devil, an insatiable glutt...
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'68
A Hungarian immigrant adjusts to life in California, as his sons venture off into their own adult li...
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The Ferrari Dino Girl
It's nighttime in Prague, 21 August 1968. Soviet troops and tanks are occupying the city - random at...
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Late Night Talks with Mother
Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech direc...
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Toyen
Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the mos...
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Corpus delicti
The subject of this film, which takes an analytical look at the life of all of us with an analytical...
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No Entrance
Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...
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Flames of Royal Love
In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be ...
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Necklace of Melancholy
A musical portrait of the legendary Marta Kubišová, filmed just before the August 1968 invasion rest...
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