Diamonds of the Night (1964)

Original title

Démanty noci

Directed by

Jan Němec

Genre

drama film, parable, war film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 07m

Rated

U

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Jewish boys escape from a train that is taking them to a concentration camp during World War II. They flee through the countryside, hunted by Nazi soldiers and local villagers.

bleaktenseurgentfragmentednightmarishvisceralclaustrophobic

What happens

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. It was director Jan Němec's first feature film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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