Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Directed by Jan Nemec
Genres - Drama, War |
Sub-Genres - War Drama, Escape Film |
Release Date - Mar 14, 1968 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 70 min. |
Countries - Czechia |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Diamonds of the Night is set in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Ladislav Jansky and Antonin Kumbera play two Jewish youths who escape from a concentration camp-bound train. Captured by local peasants on a charge of stealing bread, the boys are sentenced to a firing squad. It turns out that the villagers have no real stomach for killing, and the boys merely go through the motions of a mock execution. They are let go, and continue their journey to freedom. Diamonds of the Night was originally released as Demanty Noci.
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concentration-camp, war, captive, captor, chase, escape, firing-squad, hallucination, Holocaust, journey, Judaism, robbery, shelter, surrealism, survivor, village, boy, Czechoslovakia, man, New-Wave, news, opal, train [locomotive], training
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High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance