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Démanty noci

Démanty noci

1964Movie⏱️ 1h 7mNot Rated
DramaWar
7.3
IMDB Rating
3,166 votes

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.

Director
Jan Nemec
Writers
Arnost Lustig, Jan Nemec
Stars
Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Release Date
March 14, 1968
Language
Czech, German
Country
Czechoslovakia
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🎭 Top Cast

Ladislav Jánsky
Ladislav Jánsky
as První
Antonín Kumbera
Antonín Kumbera
as Druhý
Ilse Bischofova
Ilse Bischofova
as Zena
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Jan Riha
as Starý muz
👤
Ivan Asic
as Starý muz
👤
August Bischof
as Starý muz
👤
Josef Koggel
as Starý muz
👤
Oscar Müller
as Starý muz
👤
Anton Schich
as Starý muz
👤
Rudolf Stolle
as Starý muz

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Production
Ceskoslovenský Filmexport

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

Period DramaDramaWar

⭐ Featured Review

Czech WWII drama directed by Jan Nemec
by AlsExGal2022-10-13
4/10

"Two young men escape from a prisoner transport train on their way to a concentration camp. They try to survive in the dense woods, but the unforgiving terrain forces them back to civilization. I started out enjoying this film. It's lack of dialogue (very little is spoken for much of the runtime), handheld camerawork, and harsh locations were innovative and compelling. However, as the film progressed I grew tired of the lack of narrative and the tedious experimental-film-style digressions, in the form of quick jumps for a few seconds, to what I am assuming were supposed to be the random t..."

💡 Did You Know?

The opening tracking shot is the longest in Czechoslovakian cinema history and consumed one third of the film's budget.

📖 Synopsis

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.