Ashes and Diamonds

Popiół i diament

1958·103'

Andrzej Wajda

WarDramaRomance

★ 7.4

Letterboxd TMDB #5055

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.

Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski Maciek Chełmicki

Ewa Krzyżewska Krystyna Rozbicka

Wacław Zastrzeżynski Szczuka

Adam Pawlikowski Andrzej Kossecki

Bogumił Kobiela Drewnowski

Jan Ciecierski Porter

Stanisław Milski Pieniążek

Artur Młodnicki Kotowicz

Halina Kwiatkowska Staniewiczowa

Ignacy Machowski Waga

Zbigniew Skowroński Slomka

Barbara Krafftówna Stefka