General Information

Original Title

Démanty noci

Author/Creator

Němec, Jan, director.

Subtitles

English

Published

Czechoslovakia, 1964.

Physical Description

VHS (63 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

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-guard members. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and deals with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Diamonds of the Night

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0094	Available	-	-