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
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski
as Maciek Chełmicki
Ewa Krzyżewska
as Krystyna Rozbicka
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
as Szczuka
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
Ignacy Machowski
as Waga
Zbigniew Skowroński
as Slomka
Barbara Krafftówna
as Stefka
Aleksander Sewruk
as Święcki
Zofia Czerwińska
as Lili
Irena Orzecka
as Jurgieluszka
Grażyna Staniszewska
as Hanka Lewicka
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)
Ryszard Pietruski
as Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Marian Wiśniowski
as Militiaman (uncredited)
Crew
Andrzej Wajda
Director
Jerzy Wójcik
Director of Photography
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Novel
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Screenplay
Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay
Jan Włodarczyk
Assistant Director
Jarosław Świtoniak
Assistant Production Design
Irena Choryńska
Assistant Editor
Halina Ber
Assistant Makeup Artist
Janusz Morgenstern
First Assistant Director
Wiesław Zdort
Assistant Camera