Director
Jan Němec
Born 1936 · Prague, Czechoslovakia
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
Diamonds of the Night
Director · 1964
The Party and the Guests
Director · 1966
Landscape of my Heart
Director · 2004
A Memory for the Present
Director · 1963
Pearls of the Deep
Director · 1966
Das Rückendekolleté
Director · 1975
Oratorio for Prague
Director · 1968
The Day the Tree Blooms
Assistant Director · 1961
A Loaf of Bread
Director · 1960
Late Night Talks with Mother
Director · 2003
Necklace of Melancholy
Director · 1968
Čas slunce a růží
Director · 1968
Toyen
Director · 2005
Červnové dny
First Assistant Director · 1961
GEN
Director · 1993
Martyrs of Love
Director · 1967
Metamorphosis
Director · 1975
Povodeň
Assistant Director · 1958
Acting
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague · 1988
Oratorio for Prague
Self · 1968
Searching for Ester
Himself · 2005
Late Night Talks with Mother
Jan Němec · 2003
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
Self · 2023
Killing the Devil
(uncreditted) · 1970
Toyen
Commentary (voice) · 2005
No Entrance
(segment "In Pursuit") · 1960
Flames of Royal Love
(uncredited) · 1991
'68
Dezsö Horváth · 1988
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
Self · 2016
Golden Sixties
Self · 2009
An Occasion to Speak
Self · 1966
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
self · 2014
Writing
Diamonds of the Night
Screenplay · 1964
The Party and the Guests
Screenplay · 1966
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
Writer · 2025
Landscape of my Heart
Screenplay · 2004
A Memory for the Present
Writer · 1963
Pearls of the Deep
Screenplay · 1966
Das Rückendekolleté
Writer · 1975
A Loaf of Bread
Writer · 1960
Late Night Talks with Mother
Writer · 2003
Necklace of Melancholy
Screenplay · 1968
Killing the Devil
Screenplay · 1970
Toyen
Screenplay · 2005