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Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Drama Romance War

Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers

Release Date: 1958, October 3
Directors: Andrzej Wajda
Countries: Poland
Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr
Cast: Zofia Czerwińska, Ignacy Machowski, Barbara Krafftówna, Ferdynand Matysik, Ryszard Pietruski, Stanisław Milski, Grażyna Staniszewska, Wiktor Grotowicz, Józef Pieracki, Bogumił Kobiela, Mieczysław Łoza, Adolf Chronicki

Overview:

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

Keywords:

world war ii black and white post world war ii polish resistance post war soviet military post-war poland