Diamonds of the Night

Jan
Němec

Jan Němec (1936, Czechoslovakia)
Selected filmography: Pearls of the Deep (1965), A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966), The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016)

Two young men escape from a transport of death and find themselves at the limits of physical and mental endurance. Their escape unfolds in raw images of hunger, fear, and exhaustion, interwoven with memories, dreams, and hallucinations. This intense film by Jan Němec presents the Holocaust through a subjective lens, creating a haunting portrait of the struggle for survival.