Diamonds of the Night

Jan Němec, 1964

Spine #969

Picked by 3 guests

Drama / War

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Jan Němec

Written by Jan Němec, Arnošt Lustig

Cinematography Jaroslav Kučera

Edited by Miroslav Hájek

Cast Ladislav Janský, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofová, Jan Říha, Ivan Asič, August Bischof, Josef Koggel, Oskar Müller

Picked by

Agnieszka Holland director

“My last pick will be about the film which I'm rewatching practically any time I'm preparing the film and especially I did it on the Green Border, and that is Diamonds of the Night by Jan Němec, one of the auteurs of the absolutely wonderful Czech New Wave... It is an absolute masterpiece but also it has incredibly long shot when two young men, two boys who escaped from the transportation to the concentration camp, they are running through the forest.”

Agnieszka Holland

St. Vincent actor

“I'm going to get this and it is Diamonds of the Night. I don't know this film. Okay, well fate led me here and I'm taking it.”

St. Vincent

Jerzy Skolimowski director

“Here is one Czech guy, Jan Němec, who made Diamonds of the Night. I like that film very much.”

Jerzy Skolimowski