Ashes and Diamonds

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

Ashes and Diamonds — Plot

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 date
• October 3, 1958
• Runtime
• 103 min
• Genres
• Drama, War, Romance
• Director
• Andrzej Wajda

Ashes and Diamonds — 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