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Diamonds of the Night

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Two Jewish boys (Antonin Kumbera, Ladislav Jansky) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry.
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Eric Hynes Time Out 11/05/2013
4/5
Nemec's debut stunner feels even more potent now that it's been freed of the expectations and delineations of a national movement. Go to Full Review Renata Adler New York Times 05/21/2005
One loses interest. It looks unreal. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/14/2020
4/5
An exacting anti-war film, Diamonds of the Night is a formally experimental exercise of cinema as sensation, an immersion into the bleak poetry of survival and nightmarish desperation. Go to Full Review David Harris Spectrum Culture 01/07/2020
Diamonds of the Night remains a crowing jewel in an important film movement that aches to be experienced. Go to Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row 05/18/2019
3.5/4
A film of such raw power that it still feels genuinely radical, a hallucinatory, aesthetically visionary work. Go to Full Review James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk 05/06/2019
3.5/4
largely eschews a traditional cinematic approach to the subject and instead dramatizes the action through a fractured subjectivity that renders the entire experience dreamlike and fleeting Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Michael G 11/15/2023 Terrible. Can't believe this movie won these awards. Literally the stupidest thing I have ever sat through See more 05/22/2020 Some lovely cinematography, but it's no 'Come And See'. See more marnix d @mxds02 03/29/2020 Beautifully shot, the opening sequence, the non-verbal communication but the flashbacks with the repeated scenery made me lose interest. See more 08/05/2016 Following on the heels of the French New Wave was this Czech film directed by Jan Nemec, which featured realistic staging and gritty camerawork. See more 10/19/2011 one of the bleakest black and whites , spare the mother and the whore See more 08/11/2011 Holocaust features abound still nowadays. So what would it make Démanty Noci to shine above most of them? Its sheer honesty. Jan Nemec explores a side of war catastrophe that no other movie has shown: the inner thoughts of youth amidst harrowing circumstances. Modern society labels this as surrealism. It is not: it is a journey through disturbed minds. We say that thoughts and fantasies may distract us from reality. However, in such harsh and awful circumstances, it is the thoughts and fantasies that took this youngsters to either an idealized existence or to their past, better lives. Hence, reality is the distractor from a better life. I really hope none of us ever understands this. 99/100 See more Read all reviews
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Jan Nemec

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Antonin Kumbera

2nd Boy

Ladislav Jansky

1st Boy

Ilse Bischofova

The Woman
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Synopsis Two Jewish boys (Antonin Kumbera, Ladislav Jansky) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry.
Director
Jan Nemec
Production Co
Ceskoslovenský Filmexport
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 25, 2019
Runtime
1h 10m
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