Ashes and Diamonds
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- Runtime
- 103 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Zbigniew Cybulski
- Ewa Krzyżewska
- Wacław Zastrzeżynski
- Adam Pawlikowski
- Bogumił Kobiela
- Jan Ciecierski
- Stanisław Milski
- Artur Młodnicki
- Halina Kwiatkowska
- Ignacy Machowski
- Zbigniew Skowroński
- Barbara Krafftówna
- Aleksander Sewruk
- Zofia Czerwińska
- Irena Orzecka
- Halina Siekierko
- Grażyna Staniszewska
- Jerzy Adamczak
- Adolf Chronicki
- Wiktor Grotowicz
- Mieczysław Łoza
- Tadeusz Kalinowski
- Ferdynand Matysik
- Józef Pieracki
- Juliusz Grabowski
- Jerzy Jogałła
- Roman Mikuła
- Ryszard Pietruski
- Cyryl Przybył
- Marian Skorupa
- Marian Wiśniowski
Director
- Andrzej Wajda
Producers
Screenwriter
- Andrzej Wajda
- Jerzy Andrzejewski
