Jan Němec Movies

It's nighttime in Prague, 21 August 1968. Soviet troops and tanks are occupying the city - random attacks, soldiers shooting, bodies lying dead on...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...

The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned...

In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he...

A visual dreamscape of Prague streets, a hallucinatory vision of a world from the operating table for robotic heart surgeries, collaged together with...

This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an...

Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a...

By the end of the second World War, three prisoners wish to escape from the train carrying them from one concentration camp to another. To make it...

The unique and enigmatic journey of the writer Milan Kundera: from communist Czechoslovakia to exile in Paris, from his quest for glory to his...

A neon heart installed above Prague Castle illuminated the city for the last three months of Václav Havel’s presidency in an...

Student demonstrations in Strahov are shown in this illegally made film by a film professional with access to 35mm cameras and collaborating...

A visit to Prague by the most powerful man in the world coincides with Jan Němec's heart operation. He captures both events in a philosophical...

In this fourteen-minute film from 1993, director Jan Němec pays tribute to author Arnošt Lustig, whose work he adapted for Loaf of Bread...