"Director: Jan Nemec"

• Diamonds Of The Night | Blu Ray | (21/01/2019) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English subtitles.

• Diamonds Of The Night | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Jan Nemec the acclaimed director of The Party & The Guests. A tense and 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. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

• The Party And The Guests | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Distinguished by being ""banned forever"" in its native Czech Republic Jan Nemec's ""A Report on the Party"" is a great film from the flowering of the Czech cinema in the 1960s. It is a political thriller that satirizes unquestionable conformity. A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical but elegant and formal banquet outdoors. Nemec documents the process of self-deception and rationalization which lead to an acceptance of constrant; free will and freedom are seen as difficult to maintain and easily discarded. The affair is bizarre and ends when one of the guests (played by film director Evald Schorm) chooses not to remain and escapes. His compatriots agree that he must be recaptured and so the group arms themselves ready to hunt him down...

• The Czechoslovak New Wave - A Collection (3 Film Box Set) | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 3-disc set comprising three integral features from the most creative period of Czechoslovak cinema. Despite being made under the gaze of Government censors ; these films achieved a miraculous marriage of content and form despite the most oppressive circumstances. Set includes: Diamonds of the Night (1964): Nemec's debut feature is one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue ; it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two t...