# Diamonds of the Night (1964)

> Two concentration-camp escapees cross a hostile wartime landscape where hunger, pain, memory, and hallucination become inseparable.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/68365

## Facts

- Runtime: 67 min
- Genres: Drama, War
- Director: Jan Němec
- Cast: Ladislav Janský, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofová, Jan Říha, Ivan Asič, August Bischof, Josef Koggel, Oskar Müller
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058001/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: breakneck
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: harrowing, oppressive, surreal, serious film study, arthouse cinema night

## Synopsis

Two boys flee a concentration camp, struggling for survival in a war-torn landscape.

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