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Ashes and Diamonds
1958, Oct 03
1h 43m
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.
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki
Bogumił Kobiela
Drewnowski
Ryszard Pietruski
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Ignacy Machowski
Waga
Barbara Krafftówna
Stefka
Tadeusz Kalinowski
Wejchert
Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka
Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki
Józef Pieracki
Puciatycki
Zofia Czerwińska
Lili
Stanisław Milski
Pieniążek
Artur Młodnicki
Kotowicz
Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki
Jan Ciecierski
Porter
Marian Wiśniowski
Militiaman (uncredited)
Grażyna Staniszewska
Hanka Lewicka
Zbigniew Skowroński
Slomka
Jerzy Jogałła
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
Mieczysław Łoza
Smolarski
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Szczuka
Ferdynand Matysik
Staszek Gawlik
Halina Kwiatkowska
Staniewiczowa
Aleksander Sewruk
Święcki
Juliusz Grabowski
Musician (uncredited)
Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski
Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka
Halina Siekierko
Puciatycka
Jerzy Adamczak
Maj. Wrona
Roman Mikuła
Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)
Cyryl Przybył
(uncredited)
Marian Skorupa
Militiaman (uncredited)
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