Movielogr
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
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.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Zbigniew Cybulski | Ewa Krzyżewska | Waclaw Zastrzezynski | Adam Pawlikowski | Bogumił Kobiela | Jan Ciecierski | Stanisław Milski | Artur Młodnicki | Halina Kwiatkowska | Ignacy Machowski | Zbigniew Skowroński | Barbara Krafftówna | Aleksander Sewruk | Zofia Czerwińska | Irena Orzecka | Halina Siekierko | Grazyna Staniszewska | Jerzy Adamczak | Adolf Chronicki | Wiktor Grotowicz | Mieczysław Łoza | Tadeusz Kalinowski | Ferdynand Matysik | Józef Pieracki | Juliusz Grabowski | Jerzy Jogałła | Roman Mikuła | Ryszard Pietruski | Cyryl Przybył | Marian Skorupa | Marian Wiśniowski