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392:(1964), also based on the Holocaust. That film follows the fate of two boys who escape from a train taking them to a concentration camp. It is noted for its dramatic subjectivization of the experience of the Holocaust using experimental techniques including flashbacks, simulated hallucinations, and an unusual double ending that leaves the viewer in doubt as to the fate of its protagonists. It was his first major success, and while it passed the censors' reviews, it helped lay the foundation for the political movement that was coming. The film has since been called an aesthetic and technical milestone in the exploration of human experience under extreme conditions. 25: 133: 514:; they divorced in 1973. He married his third wife Veronica Baumann, a Czech language teacher, in 1984; they divorced in 2003. He married film editor Iva Ruszelakova shortly after. In May 2003, Němec became a father. Němec died of an illness on 18 March 2016; he was 79. 405:, played by Ivan Vyskočil, who eventually bullies most of them into blind conformity and brutality while those who resist are hunted down. The film received a particularly bad reception from the authorities as Vyskočil in the film had a remarkable likeness to 469:, Sweden, and the United States. He stayed in the United States for twelve years. Unable to work in traditional cinema, he was a pioneer in using video cameras to record weddings, including documenting the nuptials of the Swedish royal family. 448:. It received standing ovations at the New York Film Festival in the fall of 1968. Němec's footage would eventually be used by countless international news organizations as stock footage of the invasion. Philip Kaufman's film adaptation of 428:(1966). Perhaps in consideration of the previous troubles he had suffered, the film was completely apolitical, but nevertheless its surrealist lyrical style did not endear it to the authorities. In 1967 Němec made a short film 65:, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Knowledge. 443:
of Czechoslovakia occurred. He smuggled his footage of invasion to Vienna, where it was broadcast on Austrian television. He edited the footage together with the Prague Spring documentary and released the film as
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in 1972. He emigrated in 1974. He was given a warning by the government that "... if he came back, they would find some legal excuse to throw him in jail." From 1974 to 1989, he lived in Germany,
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was subject to censorship and government review. However, thanks largely to the failure of purely propagandist cinema in the early 1950s and the presence of important and powerful people such as
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within the Czechoslovak film industry, the 1960s led to an internationally acknowledged creative surge in Czechoslovak film that became known as the
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After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he returned to his native country, where he made several films, including
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However, before the political fallout from this was able to take effect, he managed to have one more feature approved:
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Němec was fired from Barrandov and subsequently only made a short documentary film about ambulence
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He was in the middle of shooting a documentary about the Prague Spring for a US producer when the
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in the late 1950s. At that time, Czechoslovakia was a communist state subservient to the
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by returning the medals given to him by the first president of the Czech Republic
432:(1967) during three days at Amsterdam film festival. The film won an award at the 379: 1060: 856:"Režisér Němec vrátil medaili. Nelíbí se mu Zemanova 'arogantní politická zvůle'" 984: 495: 37: 1208: 1147: 1121: 367: 339: 219: 166: 160: 1075: 1024: 765: 491: 1303: 1283: 1142: 383: 201: 1232: 1167: 1014: 191: 1004: 466: 939: 386:. Němec would return to Lustig's writing to direct the influential film 132: 1126: 1070: 930: 484: 433: 87:
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In 2014, he protested against the president of the Czech Republic
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in 1963; they divorced in 1968. In 1970 he married singer
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Němec's career as a filmmaker started when he attended
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