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