Jan Němec

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

It’s nighttime in Prague, 21 August 1968. Soviet troops and tanks are occupying the city – random attacks, soldiers shooting, bodies ...

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 ...

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: ...

Taking a cue from Franz Kafka’s “Letter to My Father,” this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he ...

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