Diamonds of the Night [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jan Nemec

Overview

Diamonds of the Night is set in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Ladislav Jansky and Antonin Kumbera play two Jewish youths who escape from a concentration camp-bound train. Captured by local peasants on a charge of stealing bread, the boys are sentenced to a firing squad. It turns out that the villagers have no real stomach for killing, and the boys merely go through the motions of a mock execution. They are let go, and continue their journey to freedom. Diamonds of the Night was originally released as Demanty Noci.

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Product Details

Release Date:	04/16/2019
UPC:	0715515228619
Original Release:	1964
Rating:	NR
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:07:00
Sales rank:	14,984

Special Features

New 4k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Interview from 2009 with Director Jan Nemec; A Loaf of Bread, Nemec's 1960 student thesis film, based on a short story by Arnost Lustig; Arnost Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Nemec, a short documentary from 1993; New interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova; New video essay on the film's stylistic influences by scholar James Quandt; New English Subtitle Translation; Plus: An Essay by film critic Michael Atkinson

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Antonin Kumbera	2nd Boy
Ladislav Jansky	1st Boy
Ilse Bischofova	Actor,Actor
Jan Riha	Actor
Ivan Asic	Actor
August Bischof	Actor
Josef Koggel	Actor
Oskar Muller	Actor
Anton Schich	Actor
Rudolf Stolle	Actor
Josef Koblizek	Actor
Josef Kubat	Actor
Rudolf Lukasek	Actor
Bohumil Moudry	Actor
Karel Navratil	Actor
Evzen Pichl	Actor
Frantisek Prochazka	Actor
Frantisek Vrana	Actor

Technical Credits

Jan Nemec

Arnost Lustig

Jan Nemec	Screenwriter
Arnost Lustig	Screenwriter