"Nová vlna" (New Wave) was a cinematic movement in Czechoslovakia, regarded as avant-gardist (in the sixties, when it bloomed), and, as far as I know, much cherished by critics and film historians up to now.
The few things we can state for certain about "Diamonds of the Night" is that there are two young men on the run, followed and harassed through the woods by a bunch of toothless and fanatic old nazis with hunting rifles as old as they are. And that's all.
All the rest is wrapped in mystery. Some (once) experimental cinematic trends are characterized by a fuzzy way of editing the movie (see for exemple the Soviet montage theory of the twenties): it's the same for the "nová vlna". As a result, for what regards "Diamonds of the Night" there are some important issues that are undecidable. We don't know if the two fugitives are shot, in the end, or not; we don't know if they kill people to get some food or it is given to them by good-hearted civilians; we don't even know if the story takes place in Czechoslovakia or in Germany: for each of the above alternatives the film offers and presents both horns of the dichotomies (they are killed, and they're not; they kill, and they don't; they are in one country, they are in the other). So it's up to you to decide, if you really are interested in deciding.
A as final consideration, let me say that the main nucleus of the plot is easily conveyed, and it could have been more easily conveyed, and wasting less time, if the run in the woods would have lasted, say, 5 minutes, instead of the 40 or more minutes of uninteresting and utterly repetitive footage.
The few things we can state for certain about "Diamonds of the Night" is that there are two young men on the run, followed and harassed through the woods by a bunch of toothless and fanatic old nazis with hunting rifles as old as they are. And that's all.
All the rest is wrapped in mystery. Some (once) experimental cinematic trends are characterized by a fuzzy way of editing the movie (see for exemple the Soviet montage theory of the twenties): it's the same for the "nová vlna". As a result, for what regards "Diamonds of the Night" there are some important issues that are undecidable. We don't know if the two fugitives are shot, in the end, or not; we don't know if they kill people to get some food or it is given to them by good-hearted civilians; we don't even know if the story takes place in Czechoslovakia or in Germany: for each of the above alternatives the film offers and presents both horns of the dichotomies (they are killed, and they're not; they kill, and they don't; they are in one country, they are in the other). So it's up to you to decide, if you really are interested in deciding.
A as final consideration, let me say that the main nucleus of the plot is easily conveyed, and it could have been more easily conveyed, and wasting less time, if the run in the woods would have lasted, say, 5 minutes, instead of the 40 or more minutes of uninteresting and utterly repetitive footage.