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
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