Jan Němec

Known for Directing

Jan Němec's portrait

Details

Birthday: July 12, 1936

Deathday: March 18, 2016

Place of birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia

Biography

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."