Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Andrzej Wajda
Genres : Drama, War, Romance
Status : Released
Released : Oct 3, 1958
Tagline : Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
Length : 103 minutes
Cast
- Zbigniew Cybulski
- Ewa Krzyżewska
- Wacław Zastrzeżynski
- Adam Pawlikowski
- Bogumił Kobiela
- Jan Ciecierski
- Stanisław Milski
- Artur Młodnicki
- Halina Kwiatkowska
- Ignacy Machowski
- Zbigniew Skowroński
- Barbara Krafftówna
- Aleksander Sewruk
- Zofia Czerwińska
- Irena Orzecka
- Halina Siekierko
- Grażyna Staniszewska
- Jerzy Adamczak
- Adolf Chronicki
- Wiktor Grotowicz
- Mieczysław Łoza
- Tadeusz Kalinowski
- Ferdynand Matysik
- Józef Pieracki
- Juliusz Grabowski
- Jerzy Jogałła
- Roman Mikuła
- Ryszard Pietruski
- Cyryl Przybył
- Marian Skorupa
- Marian Wiśniowski
Crew
- Director of Photography : Jerzy Wójcik
- Director : Andrzej Wajda
- Production Design : Roman Mann
- Sound : Bohdan Bieńkowski
- Assistant Director : Jan Włodarczyk
- Costume Design : Katarzyna Chodorowicz
- Screenplay : Andrzej Wajda
- Novel : Jerzy Andrzejewski
- Assistant Director : Andrzej Wróbel
- Screenplay : Jerzy Andrzejewski
- Editor : Halina Nawrocka
- Assistant Director : Anita Janeczkowa
- Makeup Artist : Halina Sieńska
- Assistant Production Design : Jarosław Świtoniak
- Music Arranger : Filip Nowak
- Assistant Production Manager : Ludwik Hager
- Production Manager : Stanisław Adler
- Assistant Camera : Jerzy Szurowski
- Assistant Production Design : Marian Kowaliński
- Conductor : Filip Nowak
- Assistant Production Design : Leszek Wajda
- Assistant Camera : Bogdan Myśliński
- Camera Operator : Krzysztof Winiewicz
- Assistant Makeup Artist : Halina Ber
- Unit Manager : Michał Sosiński
- Assistant Editor : Irena Choryńska
- Assistant Camera : Zygmunt Krusznicki
- Assistant Makeup Artist : Halina Zajac
- Unit Manager : Zygmunt Wójcik
- Assistant Camera : Wiesław Zdort
- First Assistant Director : Janusz Morgenstern