Jan Němec Movies

The subject of this film, which takes an analytical look at the life of all of us with an analytical eye, is the evil microbe that has slowly...

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

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

The construction of the new dam deprived the ferryman Ryba of his trade. The new dam replaced the ferry. However, Ryba's ancestors were ferrymen and...

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

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

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...

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...