Diamonds of the night /
With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arno₍t Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp tra...
| Other Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Czech |
| Language Notes: | Czech dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
969. |
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| Summary: | With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arno₍t Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. DVD release of the 1964 motion picture. Full screen (1.37:1). |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert. |
| Format: | DVD ; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematographers, Jaroslav Kučera, Miroslav Ondříček ; editor Miroslav Hájek. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435725 1681435721 |