Diamonds Of The Night (1964) DVD ohj. Jan Nemec

Démanty noci / Yön timantit

Ohjaus Jan Nemec

Pääosissa Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera ja Irma Bischofova

Tekstitys englanti

Special features:

•New digital transfer with restored picture and sound. Newly filmed appreciation by author and film

programmer Peter Hames.

Booklet featuring a new essay by writer and film historian Michael Brooke.

• New and improved English subtitle translation

• Photo gallery.

• Available for the first time on DVD in the

English speaking world.

1964 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival/ Winner Grand Prize. Jan N?mec's acclaimed film The Party and the Guests, voted by New York critics as one of the best films of the 1960s, is also available on Second Run DVD.

Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci)

A film by Jan N?mec

Czechoslovakia / 1964

Jan N?mec's debut feature, Diamonds of the Night is one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue, it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two teenage boys who are trying to stay alive after escaping from a German train bound for a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

With its virtuoso cinematography, inspired editing and brilliantly utilised soundtrack, the film is a landmark of the ill-fated Czech New Wave. Its themes of man's perpetual struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of unimaginable horrors are just as relevant today.

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