Ashes and Diamonds
movie
Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
Released October 03, 1958
Overview
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.
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski
as
Maciek Chełmicki
Ewa Krzyżewska
as
Krystyna Rozbicka
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
as
Szczuka
Adam Pawlikowski
as
Andrzej Kossecki
Bogumił Kobiela
as
Drewnowski
Jan Ciecierski
as
Porter
Stanisław Milski
as
Pieniążek
Artur Młodnicki
as
Kotowicz
Halina Kwiatkowska
as
Staniewiczowa
Ignacy Machowski
as
Waga
Zbigniew Skowroński
as
Slomka
Barbara Krafftówna
as
Stefka
Crew
Andrzej Wajda
as
Director
Jerzy Wójcik
as
Director of Photography
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Roman Mann
as
Production Design
Jerzy Andrzejewski
as
Novel
Jerzy Andrzejewski
as
Screenplay
Andrzej Wajda
as
Screenplay
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Halina Nawrocka
as
Editor
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Katarzyna Chodorowicz
as
Costume Design
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Anita Janeczkowa
as
Assistant Director
Jan Włodarczyk
as
Assistant Director
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Andrzej Wróbel
as
Assistant Director
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Bohdan Bieńkowski
as
Sound