Jan Němec Movies

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...

The sincere and innocent amorous outburst of a mining apprentice clashes with the insensitive misunderstanding of adults...

A lonely woman gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing Mr Devil, an insatiable glutton who turns out to be the boyfriend from Hell.

Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen...

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

Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre,...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

Story of a man who, at the end of the 1940s, attempted to cross the Czechoslovak border illegally like many others to escape the communist regime and...

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

A Hungarian immigrant adjusts to life in California, as his sons venture off into their own adult lives, which often clash with his old world ideas.

Karel Gott and his band sing songs in a natural Slovak scenery, without accompanying words or connecting story.

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...

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

Medallion of the extremely successful star of the 1960s Marta Kubišová.

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

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

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...