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