The Holocaust in the Czechoslovak New Wave

Abstract

Diamonds of the Night in the context of 1960s Czechoslovak Cinema

- Uniqueness of the film,

- Narrator of the film,

- Images,

- Camera,

- Time in the film,

- Visions,

- Hallucinations, recollections x Present moment

- Contrasts in the film: Dark x Overlit, Forest x City, Youth x Elderly, Movement x Static, Silence x Noises

- (Non)representation of Jewishness and the Holocaust

Keywords

• the Holocaust
• Czechoslovak New Wave
• Czechoslovak Cinematography