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