Ashes and Diamonds
1958·Movie
·1h 43min·
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Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
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.
Polish CinemaPost-War PolandMoral DilemmaExistential CrisisTragic RomancePolitical IntriguePsychological DramaSlow BurnHistorical Context
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Directed by:
Andrzej Wajda, Janusz Morgenstern, Jan Włodarczyk
Written by:
Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Andrzejewski
Produced by:
Michał Sosiński, Stanisław Adler, Zygmunt Wójcik
Composed by:
Bohdan Bieńkowski, Filip Nowak, Filip Nowak
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