Ashes and Diamonds

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 3, 1958

Original language

Polish

Spoken languages

Polish

Countries

Poland

Production

WFF Lodz,WFF Wroclaw,Zespół Filmowy "Kadr",Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski,Ewa Krzyżewska,Wacław Zastrzeżynski,Adam Pawlikowski,Bogumił Kobiela,Jan Ciecierski,Stanisław Milski,Artur Młodnicki,Halina Kwiatkowska,Ignacy Machowskiand 21 more

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Writer

Andrzej Wajda,Jerzy Andrzejewski

Cinematography

Jerzy Wójcik

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0052080