Diamonds of the Night

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Diamonds of the Night

1964

1h 10m

Drama

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Two Jewish boys (Antonin Kumbera, Ladislav Jansky) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry.

Eric Hynes

Time Out

Nemec's debut stunner feels even more potent now that it's been freed of the expectations and delineations of a national movement.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 5, 2013

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Renata Adler

New York Times

One loses interest. It looks unreal.

May 21, 2005

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

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.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 14, 2020

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David Harris

Spectrum Culture

Diamonds of the Night remains a crowing jewel in an important film movement that aches to be experienced.

Jan 7, 2020

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

A film of such raw power that it still feels genuinely radical, a hallucinatory, aesthetically visionary work.

Rated: 3.5/4

May 18, 2019

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

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

Rated: 3.5/4

May 6, 2019

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Michael G

Terrible. Can't believe this movie won these awards. Literally the stupidest thing I have ever sat through

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/15/23

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Audience Member

Some lovely cinematography, but it's no 'Come And See'.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

Beautifully shot, the opening sequence, the non-verbal communication but the flashbacks with the repeated scenery made me lose interest.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Following on the heels of the French New Wave was this Czech film directed by Jan Nemec, which featured realistic staging and gritty camerawork.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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one of the bleakest black and whites , spare the mother and the whore

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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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

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Jan Nemec

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2nd Boy

Ladislav Jansky

1st Boy

Ilse Bischofova

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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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