Ashes and Diamonds

Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers

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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.

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Creators

Andrzej Wajda

director

Jerzy Andrzejewski

writer

Andrzej Wajda

writer

Cast

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Zbigniew Cybulski actor Ewa Krzyżewska actor

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Wacław Zastrzeżyński actor

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Adam Pawlikowski actor

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Bogumił Kobiela actor

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Jan Ciecierski actor Stanisław Milski actor

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Artur Młodnicki actor

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Halina Kwiatkowska actor Ignacy Machowski actor

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Zbigniew Skowroński actor Barbara Krafftówna actor

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Aleksander Sewruk actor Zofia Czerwińska actor

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Irena Orzecka actor

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Halina Siekierko actor

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Grażyna Staniszewska actor

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Jerzy Adamczak actor

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Adolf Chronicki actor

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Wiktor Grotowicz actor