Ashes and Diamonds
Popiół i diament
Release: 1958-10-03
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 7.4
Drama
War
Romance
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.
Production Countries
Poland
Production Companies
Zespół Filmowy Kadr
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Ewa Krzyżewska
as Krystyna Rozbicka
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
as Szczuka
Halina Kwiatkowska
as Staniewiczowa
Ignacy Machowski
as Waga
Mieczysław Łoza
as Smolarski
Jerzy Jogałła
as Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
Ryszard Pietruski
as Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Artur Młodnicki
as Kotowicz
Wiktor Grotowicz
as Franek Pawlicki
Zbigniew Cybulski
as Maciek Chełmicki
Aleksander Sewruk
as Święcki
Zofia Czerwińska
as Lili
Józef Pieracki
as Puciatycki
Jan Ciecierski
as Porter
Irena Orzecka
as Jurgieluszka
Adolf Chronicki
as Podgórski
Ferdynand Matysik
as Staszek Gawlik
Barbara Krafftówna
as Stefka
Marian Wiśniowski
as Militiaman (uncredited)
Adam Pawlikowski
as Andrzej Kossecki
Bogumił Kobiela
as Drewnowski
Zbigniew Skowroński
as Slomka
Stanisław Milski
as Pieniążek
Grażyna Staniszewska
as Hanka Lewicka
Tadeusz Kalinowski
as Wejchert
Juliusz Grabowski
as Musician (uncredited)
Crew
Jan Włodarczyk
Assistant Director
Halina Ber
Assistant Makeup Artist
Jarosław Świtoniak
Assistant Production Design
Wiesław Zdort
Assistant Camera
Janusz Morgenstern
First Assistant Director
Jerzy Wójcik
Director of Photography
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Novel, Screenplay
Irena Choryńska
Assistant Editor
Andrzej Wajda
Director, Screenplay