Diamonds of the Night

Diamonds of the Night

1964 · 67 min · CS · 7.1 (60 votes)
Dir. Jan Němec · Starring Ladislav Janský, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofová, Jan Říha, Ivan Asič, August Bischof
Drama

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.

VIBE

A deeply unsettling and dreamlike journey through the horrors of war. It's a stark, existential exploration of survival and the fight for dignity against overwhelming darkness, presented with a disorienting, experimental visual style.

bleakharrowingoppressivestarkunflinchingslow-burnarthouseexperimentalblack and whitesurrealsurvivalhumanityoppressiondignity
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