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Ashes and Diamonds

Name: Ashes and Diamonds
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Genre: Drama, War, Romance
Released: 1958
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela

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.

1958 · Directed by Andrzej Wajda · 103 min · Drama · War · Romance · 50 frames

Tagline

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

Crew

Screenplay: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda
Cinematography: Jerzy Wójcik
Edited by: Halina Nawrocka
Production design: Roman Mann

Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chełmicki
Ewa Krzyżewska as Krystyna Rozbicka
Wacław Zastrzeżynski as Szczuka
Adam Pawlikowski as Andrzej Kossecki
Bogumił Kobiela as Drewnowski
Jan Ciecierski as Porter
Stanisław Milski as Pieniążek
Artur Młodnicki as Kotowicz
Halina Kwiatkowska as Staniewiczowa
Ignacy Machowski as Waga

Production

Country: Poland
Language: Polish
Studios: Zespół Filmowy Kadr
Themes: polish resistance, world war ii, soviet military, black and white, post war, post world war ii, post-war poland

More by Andrzej Wajda

Man of Marble — 1977
Man of Iron — 1981
Kanal — 1957
Danton — 1983
The Promised Land — 1975

On this film

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