Jan Němec

WriterActorDirectorCinematographerProducer Jul 12 (died age 79) Prague, Czechoslovakia 1958–2025 (67 year career)

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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

Film

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

Film

Diamonds of the Night

Director

Film

The Party and the Guests

Director

Film

Pearls of the Deep

Director

Film

Oratorio for Prague

Self

Film

Killing the Devil

(uncreditted)

Film

Martyrs of Love

Director

Film

A Loaf of Bread

Director

Filmography

Acting (20)

Movies (19)

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History

2023

as Self

8.0

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

2016

as Self

3.0

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

2014

as self

The Ferrari Dino Girl

Hranice

Searching for Ester

as Himself

Toyen

2005

as Commentary (voice)

5.0

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

as Jan Němec

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

Corpus delicti

Flames of Royal Love

as (uncredited)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

'68

as Dezsö Horváth

Horí

Killing the Devil

as (uncreditted)

Oratorio for Prague

as Self

Necklace of Melancholy

1968

An Occasion to Speak

1966

as Self

No Entrance

1960

as (segment "In Pursuit")

6.5

Television (1)

Golden Sixties

2009

as Self

Crew (65)

Movies (61)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut

2025

Writer

Deckname Holec

2016

Story

4.0

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

2016

Director

3.0

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

2016

Writer

3.0

Heart Beat 3D

2010

Director

Heart Beat 3D

2010

Writer

The Ferrari Dino Girl

2009

Director

6.0

The Ferrari Dino Girl

2009

Writer

6.0

Heart Above the Castle

2008

Camera Operator

Heart Above the Castle

2008

Director

Heart Above the Castle

2008

Screenplay

Heart Above the Castle

2008

Story

Toyen

Director

Toyen

Producer

Toyen

Screenplay

Landscape of my Heart

2004

Director

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

Director

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

Director of Photography

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

Music

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

Producer

Late Night Talks with Mother

2003

Writer

Code Name: Ruby

1996

Additional Photography

Code Name: Ruby

Director

Code Name: Ruby

Producer

Code Name: Ruby

Screenplay

Code Name: Ruby

Still Photographer

Code Name: Ruby

Story

Flames of Royal Love

Director

Flames of Royal Love

Screenplay

Das Rückendekolleté

Director

Das Rückendekolleté

1975

Writer

Metamorphosis

Director

Metamorphosis

Writer

Killing the Devil

Screenplay

Proudy lásku odnesou

Director

Proudy lásku odnesou

1969

Screenplay

Proudy lásku odnesou

1969

Story

Seven Days to Remember

1968

Cinematography

7.0

The Strahov Demonstration

1968

Director

Oratorio for Prague

1968

Director

7.1

Čas slunce a růží

1968

Director

Necklace of Melancholy

1968

Director

Necklace of Melancholy

1968

Screenplay

Martyrs of Love

Director

Martyrs of Love

Screenplay

Martyrs of Love

Story

The Party and the Guests

1966

Director

6.9

The Party and the Guests

Screenplay

Pearls of the Deep

Director

Pearls of the Deep

Screenplay

Diamonds of the Night

1964

Director

7.1

Diamonds of the Night

1964

Screenplay

7.1

A Memory for the Present

1963

Director

A Memory for the Present

1963

Writer

The Day the Tree Blooms

Assistant Director

Osení

Assistant Director

Červnové dny

First Assistant Director

A Loaf of Bread

Director

A Loaf of Bread

Writer

Povodeň

Assistant Director

Arnost Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Nemec

Director

Television (4)

GENUS

1995

Director

GENUS

1995

Writer

GEN

Director

GEN

Writer