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