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Diamonds of the Night (Czech: Démanty noci) is a 1964 Czech film about two boys on the run from a train taking them to a concentration camp, based loosely on Arnošt Lustig's autobiographical novel Darkness Has No Shadow. [1] It was director Jan Němec's first feature film.
Diamonds of the Night: Directed by Jan Nemec. With Antonín Kumbera, Ladislav Jánsky, Ilse Bischofova, Jan Riha. Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another.
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists.
Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry.
Diamonds of the Night (Czech: Démanty noci) is a Czech 1964 film about two boys on the run from a train taking them to a concentration camp. It was director...
Two Jewish boys (Antonin Kumbera, Ladislav Jansky) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry.
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In Czechoslovakian New Wave director Jan Nemec's uncompromising, stark, and expressionistic, nightmarish war drama with very little dialogue - his feature film debut - an hour-long, minimalist, compelling experimental work (with many hand-held camera shots) about the Holocaust:
A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity. Jan Němec.
Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry.
Diamonds in the night is the story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity. Rankings Position
