Jan Němec's film, “A Report on the Party and the Guests,” was “banned forever” in his native Czechoslovakia. In 1968, while making a documentary about the hippie flower children in Prague, Němec woke ...
Perhaps better translated simply as The Party and the Guests, since the word “report” does not really exist in the Czech title, O slavnosti a hostech, Jan Němec’s 1966 film, A Report on the Party and ...
From his visionary narrative works, such as the startling early feature "Diamonds of the Night" ("Démanty noci," 1964), to his more recent essay films that grapple with history and memory, the work of ...
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Director-scribe Jan Němec, 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. Němec was 79.
“Our life zips by faster than our recollections of it,” stated internationally celebrated Czech director Jan Němec (1936-2016). One of the country’s few home-grown filmmakers, here he loosely adapted ...
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