Jan Němec

★ Directing #8,004

1936 - 2016 (age 79) • Directing

Born: 7/12/1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Died: 3/18/2016 (age 79)

Known for: Directing

Jan Němec

★ Directing #8,004

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

Diamonds of the Night

70%

Screenplay

1964

The Party and the Guests

68%

Screenplay

1966

Pearls of the Deep

58%

Director

1966

Killing the Devil

58%

Screenplay

1970

Martyrs of Love

53%

Screenplay

1967

Oratorio for Prague

69%

Director

1968

Flames of Royal Love

41%

Director

1991

Metamorphosis

64%

Director

1975

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut

65%

Writer

2025

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History

80%

Self

2023

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

28%

Self

2016

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

28%

Writer

2016

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

28%

Director

2016

Deckname Holec

40%

Story

2016

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

self

2014

Heart Beat 3D

Director

2010

Heart Beat 3D

Writer

2010

The Ferrari Dino Girl

60%

2009

The Ferrari Dino Girl

60%

Director

2009

The Ferrari Dino Girl

60%

Writer

2009

Golden Sixties

Self

2009

Heart Above the Castle

Director

2008

Heart Above the Castle

Screenplay

2008

Heart Above the Castle

Camera Operator

2008

Heart Above the Castle

Story

2008

Hranice

60%

2006

Toyen

70%

Commentary (voice)

2005

Toyen

70%

Director

2005

Toyen

70%

Producer

2005

Toyen

70%

Screenplay

2005

Searching for Ester

80%

Himself

2005

Landscape of my Heart

100%

Director

2004

Landscape of my Heart

100%

Screenplay

2004

Landscape of my Heart

100%

Director of Photography

2004

Landscape of my Heart

100%

Original Music Composer

2004

Late Night Talks with Mother

80%

Jan Němec

2003