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Jan Němec
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Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator (1936–2016)
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Jan Němec was a Czech film director, screenwriter, pedagogue, and actor. Born in Prague in 1936, he was educated at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. His field of work was cinematography, and he spoke Czech. He held citizenship in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
Němec was married to Ester Krumbachová and Marta Kubišová. He was the relative of Václav Havel. He died in Prague on March 18, 2016, due to myocardial infarction. His manner of death was natural causes.
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Film & TV
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."
Known for
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History — Self2023
- The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street — Self2016
- Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ — self2014
- The Ferrari Dino Girl2009
- Golden Sixties — Self2009
- Hranice2006
- Searching for Ester — Himself2005
- Toyen — Commentary (voice)2005
- Late Night Talks with Mother — Jan Němec2003
- Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)2000
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Family name
- Němec
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czech Republic
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Field of work
- cinematography
- Image
- Jan Němec (1967).jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1936-07-12
- date of death
- 2016-03-18
- Commons category
- Jan Němec (film director)
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Jan Němec
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