Jan Němec
Overview of films
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Late Night Talks with Mother
Němec took inspiration from Kafka’s Letter to His Father to create a highly stylized self-portrait in the form of a dialogue with h
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Diamonds of the Night
Two Jewish boys escape the train taking them to a Nazi concentration camp. Devastated and lost, they try to find their way through a hostile and co
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Ester Krumbachová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec
The muse and co-creator of the best works from the Czechoslovak New Wave, credited for giving the Wave its distinct look, is portrayed here by her
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Flames of Royal Love
The marriage between an eccentric prince and a diabolical cleaning lady leads to debauch in the royal family. This adaptation of Ladislav Kl&#
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The Ferrari Dino Girl
While documenting the Prague Spring of 1968, Němec and his crew watched and filmed in horror the Soviet tanks invading his country. The result
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Golden Sixties: Jan Němec
In a documentary from a series of 26 portraits of the Czechoslovak New Wave filmmakers, director Martin Šulík interviews Jan Němec&nb
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Heart Above the Castle
At the end of his presidency, Václav Havel hosted a NATO summit in Prague. His distant cousin Jan Němec gets behind the scenes to shoot
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Pearls of the Deep
A manifesto of the Czechoslovak New Wave, this omnibus film consists of five shorts by five filmmakers. Němec’s segment, Impostors, is a port
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The Life of Singer Marta Kubišová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec
Portrait of the poster child of the Prague Spring, who was a major pop star before the Soviet tanks rolled in, only to see her flourishing career c
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Arnošt Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Němec
A visionary portrait of Arnošt Lustig, survivor of the Holocaust and prominent Czech writer, whose works deeply influenced Jan&nbs
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The Party and the Guests
An idyllic picnic with a group of friends is interrupted by an invasion by authoritative strangers, who playfully turn the picnickers into their&nb
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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
For the final film of his career, Němec adapted his recent book of quasi-autobiographical stories; based on his life, but not without mys