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Diamonds of the Night

Démanty noci (1964)

Drama, War | Czechoslovakia

Director: Jan Nemec

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Rating: 7.6/10

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SYNOPSIS

Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

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Writer: Arnošt Lustig, Jan Němec

RUNTIME: 63 min

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