Diamonds of the Night (1964) | May 28, 11:00 am

Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry. – The Criterion Channel

Director: Jan Němec

Cast: Ladislav Janský, Antonín Kumbera

Country: Czechoslovakia

Distributor: Janus Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 8 minutes

Platform: The Criterion Channel

Special Programming: Classic Cinema

Author: Josh Hornbeck

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