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Filmmaker · Czechia

Jan Němec

Died in 2016

Jan Němec was born on 12 July 1936 in Prague and grew up in Vinohrady, the son of an ophthalmologist and an engineer; an amateur jazz musician, he chose cinema and studied directing at the Prague film school from 1954 to 1960. Barred from filming from 1966, he filmed the entry of the tanks into Prague in August 1968, then left the country in 1974 and lived in Western Europe and the United States. Back in 1989, he taught at that same school and died in Prague on 18 March 2016.

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