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Jan Němec - Actor & Filmmaker | The Couch Critic
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Jan Němec
Born
Jul 12, 1936
Died: Mar 18, 2016
Lived 79 years
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Career Highlights
19
Movies
1
TV Shows
24
Directed
Also Known As
Jan Němec Film
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Jan Němec
Directing
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
19
TV Shows
1
Director
24
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
as
Self
2023
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
as
Self
2016
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
as
self
2014
The Ferrari Dino Girl
Cast
2009
Hranice
Cast
2006
Toyen
as
Commentary (voice)
2005
Searching for Ester
as
Himself
2005
Late Night Talks with Mother
as
Jan Němec
2003
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Cast
2000
Corpus delicti
Cast
1991
Flames of Royal Love
as
(uncredited)
1991
'68
as
Dezsö Horváth
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as
Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
1988
Horí
Cast
1982
Killing the Devil
as
(uncreditted)
1970
Oratorio for Prague
as
Self
1968
Necklace of Melancholy
Cast
1968
An Occasion to Speak
as
Self
1966
No Entrance
as
(segment "In Pursuit")
1960
