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
1988
GENUS
1996
Golden Sixties
2009
GEN
1993
Deckname Holec
2016
FAMU 80 – Best of
2026
Martyrs of Love
1967
The Party and the Guests
1966
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
2016
Late Night Talks with Mother
2003
An Occasion to Speak
1966
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut
2025

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
20
Directing
30
Writing
28
Producing
3
Camera
5
Sound
2
Crew
1
2023
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History
as Self
2016
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
as Self
2014
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
as self
2009
The Ferrari Dino Girl
2009
Golden Sixties
as Self
2006
Hranice
2005
Searching for Ester
as Himself
2005
Toyen
as Commentary (voice)
2003
Late Night Talks with Mother
as Jan Němec
2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
1991
Corpus delicti
1991
Flames of Royal Love
as (uncredited)
1988
'68
as Dezsö Horváth
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
1982
Horí
1970
Killing the Devil
as (uncreditted)
1968
Oratorio for Prague
as Self
1968
Necklace of Melancholy
1966
An Occasion to Speak
as Self
1960
No Entrance
as (segment "In Pursuit")