Ashes and Diamonds
Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
1958-10-03 | 103 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Zbigniew CybulskiMaciek Chełmicki
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Ewa KrzyżewskaKrystyna Rozbicka
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Wacław ZastrzeżynskiSzczuka
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Adam PawlikowskiAndrzej Kossecki
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Bogumił KobielaDrewnowski
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Jan CiecierskiPorter
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Artur MłodnickiKotowicz
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Halina KwiatkowskaStaniewiczowa
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Ignacy MachowskiWaga
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Zbigniew SkowrońskiSlomka
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Barbara KrafftównaStefka
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Aleksander SewrukŚwięcki
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Zofia CzerwińskaLili
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Irena OrzeckaJurgieluszka
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Grażyna StaniszewskaHanka Lewicka
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Adolf ChronickiPodgórski
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Wiktor GrotowiczFranek Pawlicki
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