Genres
Duration
103 min
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Rating
7.4
Release Date
October 3, 1958
Ashes and Diamonds
Original title: Popiół i diament
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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.
Ashes and Diamonds cast
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Zbigniew Cybulski
Character:
Maciek Chełmicki
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Ewa Krzyżewska
Character:
Krystyna Rozbicka
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Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Character:
Szczuka
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Adam Pawlikowski
Character:
Andrzej Kossecki
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Bogumił Kobiela
Character:
Drewnowski
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Jan Ciecierski
Character:
Porter
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Stanisław Milski
Character:
Pieniążek
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Artur Młodnicki
Character:
Kotowicz
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Halina Kwiatkowska
Character:
Staniewiczowa
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Ignacy Machowski
Character:
Waga
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Zbigniew Skowroński
Character:
Slomka
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Barbara Krafftówna
Character:
Stefka
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Aleksander Sewruk
Character:
Święcki
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Zofia Czerwińska
Character:
Lili
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Irena Orzecka
Character:
Jurgieluszka
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Halina Siekierko
Character:
Puciatycka
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Grażyna Staniszewska
Character:
Hanka Lewicka
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Jerzy Adamczak
Character:
Maj. Wrona
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Adolf Chronicki
Character:
Podgórski
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Wiktor Grotowicz
Character:
Franek Pawlicki
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Mieczysław Łoza
Character:
Smolarski
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Tadeusz Kalinowski
Character:
Wejchert
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Ferdynand Matysik
Character:
Staszek Gawlik
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Józef Pieracki
Character:
Puciatycki
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Juliusz Grabowski
Character:
Musician (uncredited)
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Jerzy Jogałła
Character:
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
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Roman Mikuła
Character:
Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)
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Ryszard Pietruski
Character:
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
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Cyryl Przybył
Character:
(uncredited)
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Marian Skorupa
Character:
Militiaman (uncredited)
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Marian Wiśniowski
Character:
Militiaman (uncredited)
