Diamonds of the Night

Based on a short story by Arnost Lustig describing his experiences during the Holocaust, Nemec's film uses a hallucinatory barrage of experimental techniques and astonishing long-take handheld camerawork to illustrate both the turbulent inner and outer lives of two young Jewish men fleeing through the Sudetenland woods after escaping from a train bound for the camps, a militia of dotards in hot pursuit.