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Ashes and Diamonds

74 %|Oct 3, 1958|Drama, War, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

Andrzej Wajda
Director
Jerzy Wójcik
Director of Photography
Roman Mann
Production Design
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Novel
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Screenplay
Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay
Halina Nawrocka
Editor
Katarzyna Chodorowicz
Costume Design

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Cast

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Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki
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Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka
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Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki
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Halina Kwiatkowska
Staniewiczowa
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Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka
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Jerzy Adamczak
Maj. Wrona
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Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski
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Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki
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Ferdynand Matysik
Staszek Gawlik
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Józef Pieracki
Puciatycki
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Juliusz Grabowski
Musician (uncredited)
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Jerzy Jogałła
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
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Roman Mikuła
Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)
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Ryszard Pietruski
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
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Cyryl Przybył
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Marian Skorupa
Militiaman (uncredited)
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Marian Wiśniowski
Militiaman (uncredited)