Summaries

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

WWII. Together, two young men - boys, really - with only the clothes on their backs, are running toward the forest, shedding their coats identifying them as being housed at a concentration camp, while they can hear the gunfire targeted at them. As they try to elude capture which in general means their first priority being to remain hidden from anyone else, they have to deal with the necessities of life, one who tends to focus on his hunger, while the other his physical pain in wearing ill-fitting shoes, which by chance he got by earlier trading the other for food just before their escape. The one focused on his hunger is prone to delusion about what he feels he needs to do to survive regardless of if he goes through with those thoughts, and about life still in his concentration camp identified coat but out and about in general society.—Huggo

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.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • gun
  • escape
  • flashback
  • hunger
  • tram
Genres
  • Drama
  • War
Release date Sep 24, 1964
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Czechoslovakia
Language German Czech
Production companies Ceskoslovenský Filmexport

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 7m
Color Black and White
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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