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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
Ryszard Pietruski
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Mieczysław Łoza
Smolarski
Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka
Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki
Aleksander Sewruk
Święcki
Tadeusz Kalinowski
Wejchert
Bogumił Kobiela
Drewnowski
Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki
Artur Młodnicki
Kotowicz
Józef Pieracki
Puciatycki
Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka
Jerzy Jogałła
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
Marian Wiśniowski
Militiaman (uncredited)
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Szczuka
Stanisław Milski
Pieniążek
Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski
Ignacy Machowski
Waga
Grażyna Staniszewska
Hanka Lewicka
Zofia Czerwińska
Lili
Jan Ciecierski
Porter
Zbigniew Skowroński
Slomka
Juliusz Grabowski
Musician (uncredited)
Ferdynand Matysik
Staszek Gawlik
Barbara Krafftówna
Stefka
Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki
Halina Kwiatkowska
Staniewiczowa
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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