Diamonds of the Night
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Director Jan Nemec Screenplay Jan Nemec Language Czech | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Duration Country Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Arnost Lustig , Jan Nemec Release date 25 September 1964 Initial release September 25, 1964 (Czechoslovakia) Cast Antonin Kumbera, Ladislav Jansky, Irma Bischofova Music director Jan Rychlik, Vlastimil Hala Similar movies Dramas, Other similar movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan nemec diamonds of the night 1964
Diamonds of the Night (Czech: Démanty noci) is a Czech 1964 film about two boys on the run from a train taking them to a concentration camp. It was director Jan Němec's first full-length feature film.
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Plot
Diamonds of the Night begins with two young men fleeing from a train taking them to a concentration camp. The film employs little dialog and the boys escape through rugged and unfamiliar terrain is interpolated with dreams, memories, hallucinations, fantasies, and flashbacks. They encounter a woman on a farm and one boy struggles with thoughts of murder and rape before silently taking a loaf of bread from the woman's kitchen and leaving. Eventually, the boys are caught by members of a local shooting party. The men prepare to execute the boys, but simply laugh as they walk away instead of executing them. The ending is ambiguous: The men either actually spared the boys, or they could be walking into the afterlife.
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