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