Movies: Jan Němec

  • 1988
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    6.91988HD

    Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion...

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • 1964
    Diamonds of the Night

    Diamonds of the Night (1964)

    Diamonds of the Night

    7.21964HD

    A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazis...

    Diamonds of the Night
  • 1966
    A Report on the Party and the Guests

    A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)

    A Report on the Party and the Guests

    6.91966HD

    A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up....

    A Report on the Party and the Guests
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep (1966)

    Pearls of the Deep

    61966HD

    A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ch...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 1970
    Murdering the Devil

    Murdering the Devil (1970)

    Murdering the Devil

    61970HD

    Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton....

    Murdering the Devil
  • 1968
    Seven Days to Remember

    Seven Days to Remember (1968)

    Seven Days to Remember

    71968HD

    The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned lorries to try to halt the advance. Sparsely armed, they fight fiercely, driven by a belief in their new an...

    Seven Days to Remember
  • 1967
    Martyrs of Love

    Martyrs of Love (1967)

    Martyrs of Love

    5.21967HD

    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 independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the t...

    Martyrs of Love
  • 2016
    The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

    The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016)

    The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

    3.32016HD

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

    The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
  • 1975
    Metamorphosis

    Metamorphosis (1975)

    Metamorphosis

    61975HD

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

    Metamorphosis
  • 1960
    No Entrance

    No Entrance (1960)

    No Entrance

    6.51960HD

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    No Entrance
  • 1996
    Code Name: Ruby

    Code Name: Ruby (1996)

    Code Name: Ruby

    4.51996HD

    This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an ancient seat for the practice of alchemy, follow the trail for the mystical philosopher's stone. History ...

    Code Name: Ruby
  • 1961
    The Day the Tree Blooms

    The Day the Tree Blooms (1961)

    The Day the Tree Blooms

    71961HD

    Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more old-fashioned time, the story centers around Lenka (Suzana Fisarskova), a young woman with a domineering,...

    The Day the Tree Blooms
  • 2000
    Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)

    Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)

    Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)

    02000HD

    A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observati...

    Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
  • 2016
    Deckname Holec

    Deckname Holec (2016)

    Deckname Holec

    4.82016HD

    Young director Honza David films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva the love of his life he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut...

    Deckname Holec
  • 1988
    '68

    '68 (1988)

    '68

    3.71988HD

    '68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing times and...

    '68
  • 1991
    Corpus delicti

    Corpus delicti (1991)

    Corpus delicti

    4.51991HD

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    Corpus delicti
  • 1968
    Oratorio for Prague

    Oratorio for Prague (1968)

    Oratorio for Prague

    7.11968HD

    Filmmaker Jan Nemec and his crew risked their lives to create this historic documentary account of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The award-winning work is the only filmed record of the invasion. Oratorio for Prague began as a study of t...

    Oratorio for Prague
  • 1961
    Osení

    Osení (1961)

    Osení

    21961HD

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    Osení
  • 1968
    Náhrdelník melancholie

    Náhrdelník melancholie (1968)

    Náhrdelník melancholie

    01968HD

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    Náhrdelník melancholie
  • 1968
    Čas slunce a růží

    Čas slunce a růží (1968)

    Čas slunce a růží

    01968HD

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    Čas slunce a růží