Diamonds of the Night
Diamonds of the Night

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- 74/100 based on 2,721 votes
  • Released: 1964
  • Runtime: 67 mins
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  • Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
  • Genres: War - Drama

WWII. Together, two young men - boys, really - with only the clothes on their backs, are running toward the forest, shedding their coats identifying them as being housed at a concentration camp, while they can hear the gunfire targeted at them. As they try to elude capture which in general means their first priority being to remain hidden from anyone else, they have to deal with the necessities of life, one who tends to focus on his hunger, while the other his physical pain i... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Diamonds of the Night:

Ladislav Janský
Antonín Kumbera
Ilse Bischofová
Jan Říha
Ivan Asič
August Bischof

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WWII. Together, two young men - boys, really - with only the clothes on their backs, are running toward the forest, shedding their coats identifying them as being housed at a concentration camp, while they can hear the gunfire targeted at them. As they try to elude capture which in general means their first priority being to remain hidden from anyone else, they have to deal with the necessities of life, one who tends to focus on his hunger, while the other his physical pain in wearing ill-fitting shoes, which by chance he got by earlier trading the other for food just before their escape. The one focused on his hunger is prone to delusion about what he feels he needs to do to survive regardless of if he goes through with those thoughts, and about life still in his concentration camp identified coat but out and about in general society.

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The Spectator - 9/10 by Isabel QuiglyThe technique is the jaggedly familiar one of cuts to fantasy and memories; the result painful but pitiful, with something new to say about the inhumanity, not of official fiends, but of everyday old men out on a spree.
Backseat Mafia - 9/10 by Rob AldamA thrilling tale of survival, dehumanisation and coming-of-age in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Time Out - 8/10 by Eric HynesNemec's debut stunner feels even more potent now that it's been freed of the expectations and delineations of a national movement.
User Review - 10/10 by Michael THolocaust 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
User Review - 10/10 by Peter CHard to find on video, one of the great Jewish holocaust films. The ending is debatable and to me provoked questions about what had really happened to the boys. Perhaps they escaped, perhaps they were executed and the whole film is in one of the dying boy's mind...All in all, tremendously haunting film.
User Review - 10/10 by Zoran SDiamonds of the Night is one of the most harrowing and brilliant films ever made about WWII and the Holocaust. (Certainly, it is the best film of the Czech New Wave) At only 60 or minutes, it is an intense yet economical nightmare, not a single shot is wasted. There isn't much story here: Two Jewish youths escape a train taking them to a concentration camp only to be caught by a mob of old possibly senile men. Stylistically, though, the film plays like an impossible union of Robert Bresson, Luis Bunuel, and Franz Kafka. The effect is truly horrifying. Like the other brilliant war film Come and See, this is one of those rare films that make you feel that you've peered into the hell of history and that you'll never be able to escape from its images.
User Review - 8/10 by Eric RThe premise is simple: two boys ecape from the train going to a Nazi prison camp and have to deal with hunger and some old men hunting them down. The cinematography is beautiful and the editing amazing, reminescent of Funeral Parade of Roses and Marienbad. I found it vague as why the old men were hunting them.
User Review - 6/10 by visitorQ SGuter und atmosphärischer Film doch der letzte Funke wollte bei mir nicht überspringen. Die Anfangssequenz war großartig und auch in der Mitte gab es einen Moment der Gänsehaut pur war, doch hatte der Film trotz seiner kurzen Spielzeit von 64 Minuten auch die ein oder andere Länge. Dennoch sehenswert. 3/5
User Review - 6/10 by R.A. LWEB. Conmovedora y retadora en su simpleza, cual abstracta historia de fantasmas, pero tengo que verla de nuevo. / Moving and challenging in its simplicity, like an abstract ghost story, but I have to see this again.

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