Diamonds of the Night ( Démanty noci )

Diamonds of the Night (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Original Title: Démanty noci
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Czech ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
64 min + 20 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Jan Nemec

Written By:
Arnost Lustig
Jan Nemec

Actors:
Ladislav Jánsky ..... 1st Boy
Antonín Kumbera ..... 2nd Boy
Irma Bischofova ..... The Woman
Ivan Asic
August Bischof
Josef Koblizek
Josef Koggel
Josef Kubat
Rudolf Lukásek
Bohumil Moudry
Karel Navratil
Evzen Pichl
Frantisek Procházka
Jan Riha
Anton Schich
Rudolf Stolle
Frantisek Vrana

Synopsis:

DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT is set in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Ladislav Jansky and Antonin Kumbera play two Jewish youths who escape from a concentration camp-bound train. Captured by local peasants on a charge of stealing bread, the boys are sentenced to a firing squad. It turns out that the villagers have no real stomach for killing, and the boys merely go through the motions of a mock execution. They are let go, and continue their journey to freedom.

From Jan Nemec, the acclaimed director of THE PARTY & THE GUESTS. A tense and 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.

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. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

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