(Demanty Noci) Nemec's celebrated first feature depicts the ordeal of two Jewish boys who escape from a German death train during the war and spend four days in the forest, hunted and hunting, increasingly oppressed in their precarious freedom and inhuman solitude. The psychology of the hunted takes precedence over incident; what is real and what is imagined are so intertwined as to keep the viewer on edge, in bitter collusion with the boys. Virtually without dialogue, the film is a virtuoso display of film technique; emotions, which build like a fever, are conveyed almost entirely through sound and visuals. Taken from a story by Arnost Lustig, whose affinities with Kafka are evident, Diamonds of the Night is an immersion into the nightmare of the individual when all the power is armed against him.