Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1936-07-12
Deathday
2016-03-18
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Jan Němec
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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
Oratorio for Prague
as Self
Murdering the Devil
as (uncreditted)
'68
as Dezsö Horváth
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
as Self
No Entrance
as (segment "In Pursuit")
Corpus delicti
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
as Self
The Ferrari Dino Girl
Toyen
as Commentary (voice)