Diamonds of the Night (1964)

Essential Viewing

Czechoslovakia

Feature Film

Original Title: Démanty noci

Director: Jan Němec

Writers: Jan Němec, Arnost Lustig

Cinematographer: Jaroslav Kucera

Cast: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Irma Bischofova

Dreams, nightmares, hopes, regrets, fantasies, and memories bleed in and out of the frame, creating a terrifying yet strangely beautiful alien world in Němec’s remarkable, enigmatic, impressionistic feature debut, which follows the halting progress of two Czech Jewish youths on the run in the German countryside during the Second World War. Iain.Stott