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Ashes and Diamonds

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

Genres

DramaWarRomance

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.

Details

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Runtime

103 min

Release Date

1958-10-03

Status

Released

Original Language

Polish

Vote Count

246

Vote Average

7.4

Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.

Zbigniew Cybulski

Maciek Chełmicki

Ewa Krzyżewska

Krystyna Rozbicka

Wacław Zastrzeżynski

Szczuka

Adam Pawlikowski

Andrzej Kossecki

Bogumił Kobiela

Drewnowski

Jan Ciecierski

Porter

Stanisław Milski

Pieniążek

Artur Młodnicki

Kotowicz

Halina Kwiatkowska

Staniewiczowa

Ignacy Machowski

Waga

Zbigniew Skowroński

Slomka

Barbara Krafftówna

Stefka

Aleksander Sewruk

Święcki

Zofia Czerwińska

Lili

Irena Orzecka

Jurgieluszka

Halina Siekierko

Puciatycka

Grażyna Staniszewska

Hanka Lewicka

Jerzy Adamczak

Maj. Wrona

Adolf Chronicki

Podgórski

Wiktor Grotowicz

Franek Pawlicki

Mieczysław Łoza

Smolarski

Tadeusz Kalinowski

Wejchert

Ferdynand Matysik

Staszek Gawlik

Józef Pieracki

Puciatycki

Juliusz Grabowski

Musician (uncredited)

Jerzy Jogałła

Marek Szczuka (uncredited)

Roman Mikuła

Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)

Ryszard Pietruski

Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)

Cyryl Przybył

(uncredited)

Marian Skorupa

Militiaman (uncredited)

Marian Wiśniowski

Militiaman (uncredited)

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