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Ashes and Diamonds

7.4 103 mins Drama   War   Romance   1958
Zespół Filmowy Kadr  
Director(s): Andrzej Wajda

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.

Casts of Ashes and Diamonds

Zbigniew Cybulski

as Maciek Chełmicki

Ewa Krzyżewska

as Krystyna Rozbicka

Adam Pawlikowski

as Andrzej Kossecki

Bogumił Kobiela

as Drewnowski

Jan Ciecierski

as Porter

Stanisław Milski

as Pieniążek

Artur Młodnicki

as Kotowicz

Halina Kwiatkowska

as Staniewiczowa

Aleksander Sewruk

as Święcki

Irena Orzecka

as Jurgieluszka

Halina Siekierko

as Puciatycka

Grażyna Staniszewska

as Hanka Lewicka

Jerzy Adamczak

as Maj. Wrona

Adolf Chronicki

as Podgórski

Wiktor Grotowicz

as Franek Pawlicki

Mieczysław Łoza

as Smolarski

Tadeusz Kalinowski

as Wejchert

Ferdynand Matysik

as Staszek Gawlik

Józef Pieracki

as Puciatycki

Juliusz Grabowski

as Musician (uncredited)

Jerzy Jogałła

as Marek Szczuka (uncredited)

Roman Mikuła

as Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)

Ryszard Pietruski

as Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)

Cyryl Przybył

as (uncredited)

Marian Skorupa

as Militiaman (uncredited)

Marian Wiśniowski

as Militiaman (uncredited)

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