Ashes and Diamonds

1080p 103 min 1958 Published on, 1 year ago

7.5

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.

Country

Poland

Genre

Drama War Romance

Released

03 Oct, 1958

Main Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski , Ewa Krzyżewska , Wacław Zastrzeżynski , Adam Pawlikowski , Bogumił Kobiela

Supporting Cast

Jan Ciecierski , Stanisław Milski , Artur Młodnicki , Halina Kwiatkowska , Ignacy Machowski

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