Director: Jan Nemec
Year: 1964
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Length: 64 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: 12
Alternate Title: Demanty Noci

Synopsis

Jan Nemec's debut feature chronicles the journey of two teenage boys trying to stay alive after having escaped a train bound for a Nazi concentration camp.

Told almost without dialogue, the film is a landmark of the ill-fated Czech New Wave and its theme of man's struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of horror is universal.

Special Features

- Newly filmed appreciation by author and film programmer Peter Hames
- Essay by writer and film historian Michael Brooke
- Improved English subtitle translation
- Photo gallery