Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
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.
Release: 1958-10-03
Runtime: 103 min
Rating: 7.4 / 10
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
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Halina Siekierko
Grażyna Staniszewska
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Jerzy Adamczak