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Jan Němec (12 July 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave ."
Jan Němec (12. července 1936 Praha – 18. března 2016 Praha) byl český filmový režisér, filmový producent a vysokoškolský pedagog FAMU.
Jan Nemec was born on 12 July 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Toyen (2005), Diamonds of the Night (1964) and Mucedníci lásky (1967). He was married to Iva Ruszeláková, Veronica Baumann, Marta Kubisová and Ester Krumbachová.
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Mar 23, 2016 · Jan Nemec, whose surreal, parable-like films made him one of the leading lights of the Czech new wave in the 1960s, died on March 18 in Prague. He was 79. His wife, Iva Ruszelakova,...
Mar 18, 2016 · PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech film director Jan Nemec, one of the most talented members of the Czech "New Wave" of filmmakers, who rose to world acclaim in the 1960s, died on Friday after a long...
Mar 20, 2016 · Director-scribe Jan Nemec, a co-founder of the Czech New Wave which was banned for work exposing communist brutality, died Friday after an illness, according to Prague media. Nemec was 79.