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
Jan Ciecierski
as Porter
Aleksander Sewruk
as Święcki
Irena Orzecka
as Jurgieluszka
Adam Pawlikowski
as Andrzej Kossecki
Zbigniew Skowroński
as Slomka
Adolf Chronicki
as Podgórski
Ewa Krzyżewska
as Krystyna Rozbicka
Józef Pieracki
as Puciatycki
Marian Wiśniowski
as Militiaman (uncredited)
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
as Szczuka
Stanisław Milski
as Pieniążek
Artur Młodnicki
as Kotowicz
Halina Kwiatkowska
as Staniewiczowa
Tadeusz Kalinowski
as Wejchert
Jerzy Jogałła
as Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
Ryszard Pietruski
as Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Barbara Krafftówna
as Stefka
Grażyna Staniszewska
as Hanka Lewicka
Wiktor Grotowicz
as Franek Pawlicki
Mieczysław Łoza
as Smolarski
Juliusz Grabowski
as Musician (uncredited)
Ignacy Machowski
as Waga
Zofia Czerwińska
as Lili
Zbigniew Cybulski
as Maciek Chełmicki
Bogumił Kobiela
as Drewnowski
Ferdynand Matysik
as Staszek Gawlik
Crew
Halina Ber
Assistant Makeup Artist
Jerzy Wójcik
Director of Photography
Jan Włodarczyk
Assistant Director
Irena Choryńska
Assistant Editor
Wiesław Zdort
Assistant Camera
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Novel, Screenplay
Jarosław Świtoniak
Assistant Production Design
Janusz Morgenstern
First Assistant Director
Andrzej Wajda
Director, Screenplay