Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | pl |
| Popularity | 9.692 |
Directed By
Andrzej Wajda
Crew
Andrzej Wajda
Jerzy Wójcik
Roman Mann
Andrzej Wróbel
Katarzyna Chodorowicz
Bohdan Bieńkowski
Halina Sieńska
Halina Nawrocka
Jan Włodarczyk
Anita Janeczkowa
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Andrzej Wajda
Marian Kowaliński
Zygmunt Wójcik
Jerzy Szurowski
Ludwik Hager
Zygmunt Krusznicki
Irena Choryńska
Halina Ber
Halina Zajac
Bogdan Myśliński
Stanisław Adler
Krzysztof Winiewicz
Leszek Wajda
Filip Nowak
Jarosław Świtoniak
Filip Nowak
Michał Sosiński
Wiesław Zdort
Janusz Morgenstern
TOP 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
Aleksander Sewruk
Święcki
Zofia Czerwińska
Lili
Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka
Halina Siekierko
Puciatycka
Grażyna Staniszewska
Hanka Lewicka
Jerzy Adamczak
Maj. Wrona
Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski
Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki
Mieczysław Łoza
Smolarski
Tadeusz Kalinowski
Wejchert
Ferdynand Matysik
Staszek Gawlik
Józef Pieracki
Puciatycki
Juliusz Grabowski
Musician (uncredited)
Jerzy Jogałła
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
Roman Mikuła
Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)
Ryszard Pietruski
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Cyryl Przybył
(uncredited)
Marian Skorupa
Militiaman (uncredited)
Marian Wiśniowski
Militiaman (uncredited)
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