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Jan Němec

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."

Et billede af Jan Němec

Directing

1958

[ ] Povodeň (Assistant Director)

1960

[ ] A Loaf of Bread (Director)

1961

[ ] Červnové dny (First Assistant Director)
[ ] The Day the Tree Blooms (Assistant Director)
[ ] Osení (Assistant Director)

1964

[ ] Diamonds of the Night (Director)

1966

[ ] The Party and the Guests (Director)
[ ] Pearls of the Deep (Director)

1967

[ ] Martyrs of Love (Director)

1968

[ ] Čas slunce a růží (Director)
[ ] Oratorio for Prague (Director)
[ ] Necklace of Melancholy (Director)
[ ] The Strahov Demonstration (Director)

1969

[ ] Proudy lásku odnesou (Director)

1975

[ ] Metamorphosis (Director)
[ ] Das Rückendekolleté (Director)

1991

[ ] Flames of Royal Love (Director)

1996

[ ] Code Name: Ruby (Director)

2003

[ ] Late Night Talks with Mother (Director)

2004

[ ] Landscape of my Heart (Director)

2005

[ ] Toyen (Director)

2008

[ ] Heart Above the Castle (Director)

2009

[ ] The Ferrari Dino Girl (Director)

2010

[ ] Heart Beat 3D (Director)

2016

[ ] The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (Director)

????

[ ] Arnost Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Nemec (Director)

Writing

1960

[ ] A Loaf of Bread (Writer)

1964

[ ] Diamonds of the Night (Screenplay)

1966

[ ] The Party and the Guests (Screenplay)
[ ] Pearls of the Deep (Screenplay)

1967

[ ] Martyrs of Love (Story)
[ ] Martyrs of Love (Screenplay)

1968

[ ] Necklace of Melancholy (Screenplay)

1969

[ ] Proudy lásku odnesou (Story)
[ ] Proudy lásku odnesou (Screenplay)

1970

[ ] Killing the Devil (Screenplay)

1975

[ ] Das Rückendekolleté (Writer)
[ ] Metamorphosis (Writer)

1991

[ ] Flames of Royal Love (Screenplay)

1996

[ ] Code Name: Ruby (Screenplay)
[ ] Code Name: Ruby (Story)

2003

[ ] Late Night Talks with Mother (Writer)

2005

[ ] Toyen (Screenplay)

2008

[ ] Heart Above the Castle (Screenplay)
[ ] Heart Above the Castle (Story)

2009

[ ] The Ferrari Dino Girl (Writer)

2010

[ ] Heart Beat 3D (Writer)

2016

[ ] The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (Writer)
[ ] Deckname Holec (Story)

2025

[ ] Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut (Writer)

Crew

1968

[ ] Seven Days to Remember (Cinematography)

Sound

2003

[ ] Late Night Talks with Mother (Music)

Production

1996

[ ] Code Name: Ruby (Producer)

2003

[ ] Late Night Talks with Mother (Producer)

2005

[ ] Toyen (Producer)

Camera

1996

[ ] Code Name: Ruby (Still Photographer)
[ ] Code Name: Ruby (Additional Photography)

2003

[ ] Late Night Talks with Mother (Director of Photography)

2008

[ ] Heart Above the Castle (Camera Operator)

Actor

1960

[ ] No Entrance ((segment "In Pursuit"))

1966

[ ] An Occasion to Speak (Self)

1968

[ ] Oratorio for Prague (Self)
[ ] Necklace of Melancholy (????)

1970

[ ] Killing the Devil ((uncreditted))

1982

[ ] Horí (????)

1988

[ ] '68 (Dezsö Horváth)
[ ] The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague)

1991

[ ] Corpus delicti (????)
[ ] Flames of Royal Love ((uncredited))

2000

[ ] Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (????)

2003

[ ] Late Night Talks with Mother (Jan Němec)

2005

[ ] Searching for Ester (Himself)
[ ] Toyen (Commentary (voice))

2006

[ ] Hranice (????)

2009

[ ] The Ferrari Dino Girl (????)

2014

[ ] Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ (self)

2016

[ ] The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (Self)

2023

[ ] Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History (Self)