Overview
- Summary
- Diamonds of the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. A bite to eat is Němec's diploma film from Prague Film Academy about one man's feverish attempt to steal a loaf of bread from a Nazi-guarded train.
- Variant Title
- Démanty noci
Diamonds in the night
Sousto
Bissen
Bite to eat - Format
- Video
- Published
- Chicago : Facets Video, 1987
- Notes
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Videorecording of films produced in Czechoslovakia in the sixties.
Based on stories by Arnošt Lustig.
Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
Cinematography: Jaroslav Kucera (1st film)
VHS format.
Czech with English subtitles (1st film) ; Czech with German subtitles (2nd film)
Physical Details
- Language
- Czech
- Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette (65, 12 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
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- Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
- Conditions on Use
- Subject to copyright restrictions.
Keywords & Subjects
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