Jan Němec
Overzicht van films
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Late Night Talks with Mother
Jan Němec | 69' | Czech Republic | None
Němec took inspiration from Kafka’s Letter to His Father to create a highly stylized self-portrait in the form of a dialogue with his -
The Life of Singer Marta Kubišová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec
Jan Němec | 14' | Czech Republic | None
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… -
A Loaf of Bread
Jan Němec | 12' | Czechoslovakia | None
Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Young prisoners exhausted by famine plan to steal some bread from a German train. Němec’s first film alread -
Martyrs of Love
Jan Němec | 71' | Czechoslovakia | None
A luscious non-political musical comedy, this three-part ballad uses music to stand in for dialogue. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy an -
A Memory for the Present
Jan Němec | 10' | Czechoslovakia | None
Disturbing archival images of World War Two are juxtaposed with Němec’s observations of a post-war ‘liberated’ Czechoslovakia. A montage as a visual p -
Mutter und Sohn
Jan Němec | 11' | Netherlands | None
Commissioned at the Amsterdam Film Festival, this absurdist parable about the doting mother of a brutal torturer was shot without permission of the Cz -
Oratorio for Prague
Jan Němec | 26' | Czechoslovakia | None
Intended to capture the hopeful atmosphere of the Prague Spring, Němec instead filmed its transition into the bloody occupation of Czechoslo -
The Party and the Guests
Jan Němec | 70' | Czechoslovakia | None
An idyllic picnic with a group of friends is interrupted by an invasion by authoritative strangers, who playfully turn the picnickers into their -
Pearls of the Deep
Jan Němec, Jiří Menzel, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš | 107' | Czechoslovakia | None
A manifesto of the Czechoslovak New Wave, this omnibus film consists of five shorts by five filmmakers. Němec’s segment, Impostors, is a portrait of t -
The Strahov Demonstration
Jan Němec | 32' | Czechoslovakia | None
An unprecedented demonstration of discontent by students in 1967 leads Němec to give them a voice on camera – much to the displeasure of th -
True Stories: Peace in Our Time?
Otto Olejár, Jan Němec | 99' | United Kingdom | None
In one of his most straightforward documentaries, Němec tackles his nation’s trauma: the signing of the Munich Treaty, which lead to the disarmi
