Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Drama Movies 103 minutes. 灰燼與鑽石, Cinzas e Diamantes, Popiół i diament, Cenizas y diamantes, Пепел и диамант, Cenizas y diamantes, Asche und Diamant, Aske og diamanter, Cenizas y diamantes, Aska och diamant, Tuhkaa ja timantteja, Tuhkaa ja timanttia, Cendres et diamant, Ashes and Diamonds, Stahtes kai diamantia, Hamu és gyémánt, Cenere e diamanti, Cenizas y diamantes, As en diamanten, Aska och diamanter, Пепел и алмаз, Ashes and Diamonds, Pepeo i dijamanti, 재와 다이아몬드. 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. polish resistance, soviet military, black and white, post war, post world war ii, post-war poland
Released: Oct 03, 1958
Runtime: 103 minutes
Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski
Crew: Andrzej Wajda (Director), Jerzy Wójcik (Director of Photography), Roman Mann (Production Design), Andrzej Wróbel (Assistant Director), Katarzyna Chodorowicz (Costume Design), Bohdan Bieńkowski (Sound)