Episode 705: Diamonds in the Night (1964)

Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Rob St. Mary

We’re kicking off #Czechtember2024 with a classic of the Czech New Wave, Jan Nemec's Diamonds of the Night. Released in 1964, the film was a groundbreaking piece of cinema. Based on Arnost Lustig's semi-autobiographical novel Darkness Casts No Shadow, the film is about the escape of two boys from a train carrying them to a death camp.

Heather Drain and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss this harrowing film.

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Buy Diamonds of the Night on Blu-Ray
Learn more about The National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror Museum
Find out more about the Museum of Communism in Prague

Music:
"Diamonds of the Night" - Forgotten Silence

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Episode 381: Dita Saxová (1968)

Guest Co-Host: Chris Stachiw

Czechtember 2018 continues with a look at Antonín Moskalyk’s Dita Saxová (1968). Adapted by Arnost Lustig (Diamonds in the Night, Transport from Paradise) and based on his novel, the film is the story of our titular Dita Saxova (Krystyna Mikolajewska), a survivor of Nazi death camps who carries with her survivor’s guilt. She moves from one relationship to another without seeming to have a care in the world, though this ultimately doesn’t seem to be the case.

Chris Stachiw of Kulture Shocked joins Mike to discuss this devastating film.

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Buy Dita Saxova on DVD
Buy Dita Saxova by Arnost Lustig
Read Spotlight on the Czechoslovak New Wave Revisited: Dita Saxová (1967) by Rowena Santos Aquino
Read about the making of Dita Saxova

Music:
"Suite from Dita Saxová" - Luboš Fišer

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