Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Original title: Popiół i diament
Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
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.
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Zbigniew CybulskiMaciek Chełmicki
Ewa KrzyżewskaKrystyna Rozbicka
Waclaw ZastrzezynskiSzczuka
Adam PawlikowskiAndrzej Kossecki
Bogumił KobielaDrewnowski
Jan CiecierskiPortier
Stanisław MilskiPieniazek
Barbara KrafftównaStefka
Artur MłodnickiKotowicz
Halina KwiatkowskaStaniewiczowa
Ignacy MachowskiWaga
Zbigniew SkowrońskiSlomkaKeywords
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What is Ashes and Diamonds about?
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.
How long is Ashes and Diamonds?
Ashes and Diamonds has a runtime of 103 minutes.
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