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Diamonds of the Night

Believing that the director must create "a personal style" and "a world independent of reality as it appears at the time," Jan Nemec employed this philosophy in Diamonds of the Night.
Diamonds follows an escape of two young concentration camp prisoners through the woods of tSudetenland and the ensuing hunt for them. Employing devices of 'pure cinema,' Nemec depicts the state of a distressed human mind, moving freely between the present, dreams and flashbacks.
This surreal masterpiece comes closer to the truth of human experience than many works of realism.
Newly struck archival 35mm print!
Czechoslovakia, 1964, 64min., Czech and German with English Subtitles, 35mm, | Director: Jan Nemec | Story by: Arnost Lustig | Cast Includes: Antonin Kumbera and Ladislav Jansky The screening presented by Cinema Arts Centre is part of a touring retrospective of Jan Nemec films INDEPENDENT OF REALITY: The Films of Jan Nemec in North America, premiered by BAMcinématek in New York. The retrospective is produced by Comeback Company, curated by Irena Kovarova, and organized in partnership with the National Film Archive, Prague, Aerofilms, and Jan Nemec-Film.