The Holocaust and the Czech new wave: revisiting Diamonds of the Night (1964)

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Notes

1 “About” section, Liberating Cinema website. https://liberatingcinema.org.uk/about/

2 Žalman writes of Krumbachová: “She is the first to bring ger gift of philosophical abstraction and Kafkaesque understanding of symbolism […] to bear upon the somewhat limited world of Czech cinematic reality.”

3 These include: Kurt Maetzig’s Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten, 1947) and Harald Braun’s Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (Zwischen gestern und morgen, 1947) in East Germany, Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage (Ostatni etap, 1948) in Poland, (filmed on location in Auschwitz, where she had been a prisoner) and Alfréd Radok’s Distant Journey (Daleká cesta, 1949) in Czechoslovakia.