Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
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.
Director:
Andrzej Wajda
Writers:
Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski.
Zbigniew Cybulski Maciek Chełmicki |
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Ewa Krzyżewska Krystyna Rozbicka |
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Wacław Zastrzeżynski Szczuka |
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Adam Pawlikowski Andrzej Kossecki |
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Bogumił Kobiela Drewnowski |
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Jan Ciecierski Porter |
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Stanisław Milski Pieniążek |
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Artur Młodnicki Kotowicz |
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Halina Kwiatkowska Staniewiczowa |
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Ignacy Machowski Waga |
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Zbigniew Skowroński Slomka |
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Barbara Krafftówna Stefka |
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Aleksander Sewruk Święcki |
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Zofia Czerwińska Lili |
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Irena Orzecka Jurgieluszka |
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Halina Siekierko Puciatycka |
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Grażyna Staniszewska Hanka Lewicka |
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Jerzy Adamczak Maj. Wrona |
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Adolf Chronicki Podgórski |
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Wiktor Grotowicz Franek Pawlicki |
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Mieczysław Łoza Smolarski |
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Tadeusz Kalinowski Wejchert |
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Ferdynand Matysik Staszek Gawlik |
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Józef Pieracki Puciatycki |
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Juliusz Grabowski Musician (uncredited) |
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Jerzy Jogałła Marek Szczuka (uncredited) |
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Roman Mikuła Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited) |
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Ryszard Pietruski Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited) |
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Cyryl Przybył (uncredited) |
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Marian Skorupa Militiaman (uncredited) |
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Marian Wiśniowski Militiaman (uncredited) |
Writing | Andrzej Wajda | Screenplay |
Directing | Andrzej Wajda | Director |
Camera | Jerzy Wójcik | Director of Photography |
Writing | Jerzy Andrzejewski | Screenplay |
Writing | Jerzy Andrzejewski | Novel |
Sound | Filip Nowak | Conductor |
Sound | Filip Nowak | Music Arranger |
Camera | Krzysztof Winiewicz | Camera Operator |
Directing | Janusz Morgenstern | First Assistant Director |
Camera | Wiesław Zdort | Assistant Camera |
Directing | Anita Janeczkowa | Assistant Director |
Art | Jarosław Świtoniak | Assistant Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Sieńska | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Katarzyna Chodorowicz | Costume Design |
Production | Stanisław Adler | Production Manager |
Art | Roman Mann | Production Design |
Art | Leszek Wajda | Assistant Production Design |
Editing | Halina Nawrocka | Editor |
Camera | Jerzy Szurowski | Assistant Camera |
Directing | Jan Włodarczyk | Assistant Director |
Directing | Andrzej Wróbel | Assistant Director |
Sound | Bohdan Bieńkowski | Sound |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Zajac | Assistant Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Ber | Assistant Makeup Artist |
Production | Ludwik Hager | Assistant Production Manager |
Editing | Irena Choryńska | Assistant Editor |
Production | Zygmunt Wójcik | Unit Manager |
Production | Michał Sosiński | Unit Manager |
Camera | Bogdan Myśliński | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Zygmunt Krusznicki | Assistant Camera |
Art | Marian Kowaliński | Assistant Production Design |