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."
Directed
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Diamonds of the Night (1964) — Director
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The Party and the Guests (1966) — Director
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Pearls of the Deep (1966) — Director
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Martyrs of Love (1967) — Director
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Oratorio for Prague (1968) — Director
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Flames of Royal Love (1991) — Director
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Metamorphosis (1975) — Director
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A Loaf of Bread (1960) — Director
- Code Name: Ruby (1996) — Director
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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016) — Director
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Toyen (2005) — Director
- Čas slunce a růží (1968) — Director
- Das Rückendekolleté (1975) — Director
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Necklace of Melancholy (1968) — Director
- Landscape of my Heart (2004) — Director
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The Ferrari Dino Girl (2009) — Director
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Late Night Talks with Mother (2003) — Director
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A Memory for the Present (1963) — Director
- GEN (1993) — Director
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Proudy lásku odnesou (1969) — Director
- The Strahov Demonstration (1990) — Director
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Heart Beat 3D (2010) — Director
- Heart Above the Castle (2008) — Director
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Arnost Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Nemec — Director
- GENUS (1995) — Director
Also appeared in
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) — Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
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Killing the Devil (1970) — (uncreditted)
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Oratorio for Prague (1968) — Self
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'68 (1988) — Dezsö Horváth
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Flames of Royal Love (1991) — (uncredited)
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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016) — Self
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Corpus delicti (1991)
- No Entrance (1960) — (segment "In Pursuit")
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Searching for Ester (2005) — Himself
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Toyen (2005) — Commentary (voice)
- Hranice (2006)
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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History (2023) — Self
- Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)
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The Ferrari Dino Girl (2009)
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Late Night Talks with Mother (2003) — Jan Němec
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Necklace of Melancholy (1968)
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Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ (2014) — self
- Horí (1982)
- An Occasion to Speak (1966) — Self
- Golden Sixties (2009) — Self