“Nemec's technique is as emotionally intuitive as it is masterful, purposefully scrambling past and present, handheld realism (a breathless opening tracking shot) and Buñuellian surrealism.”-Time Out

(Demanty noci). A brilliantly stylized, expressionist nightmare in film form, Diamonds of the Night turns the horrors of the Holocaust into existential fear. Concentration camp jackets on their backs, two boys hop off a train and start running, and with that startling image Diamonds of the Night is off and running as well, never stopping as it careens through a night of darkness and constant movement. Pure cinema at its finest, Diamonds has only a few lines of dialogue and no real “plot”; its brilliantly fluid black-and-white camerawork, mixed with hallucinatory close-ups and runs through the forest, capture everything we need to know. Nemec's portrait of a group of doddering old men, gathering to eagerly hunt down the boys, also tells us all we need to know of the society that exists around them. The title of the story by Czech writer Arnost Lustig from which the film is drawn, Darkness Casts No Shadow, appropriately captures its mood of moral nightfall.