Jan Němec Movies

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

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...

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

Set in a village, the story of a simple-minded, not-so-responsible young man who still manages to take care of his younger siblings after their...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

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 musical portrait of the legendary Marta Kubišová, filmed just before the August 1968 invasion restricted her artistic activities.

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

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

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 unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia evolved into...

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...

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from...

Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard and his young and inexperienced colleague follow...

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...

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