Ashes and Diamonds(Movie, 1958)

Name: Ashes and Diamonds
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love, War
Released: 1958
Duration: T01:43:00
Rating: 3.8

Original title: "Popiół i diament" (Polish/PL)

1h 43min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love, War

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 94 votes)

Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popiół i diament) is a 1958 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. Starring Zbigniew Cybulski and Ewa Krzyżewska, it completed Wajda's war films trilogy, following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956). The action of Ashes and Diamonds takes place in 1945, shortly after World War II. The main protagonist of the film, former Home Army soldier Maciek Chełmicki, is acting in the anti-Communist underground. Maciek receives an order to kill Szczuka, the local secretary of the Polish Workers' Party. Over time, Chełmicki increasingly doubts if his task is worth doing. Ashes and Diamonds, although based on the novel that directly supported the postwar Communist system in Poland, was subtly modified in comparison with the source material. Wajda sympathized with the soldiers of the P... ()

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About Ashes and Diamonds

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.

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Additional Information

Production country: Poland

Plays in: Poland

Based on: "Ashes and Diamonds" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Zespól Filmowy "Kadr"

Original language: Polish (PL)

Spoken languages: Polish (PL)

Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 01/08/2017 (World premiere: 10/03/1958)

Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Bogumił Kobiela, Stanisław Milski, Barbara Krafftówna, Ewa Krzyżewska, Adam Pawlikowski, Jan Ciecierski, Ignacy Machowski

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Producer: Roman Mann

Screenwriter: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda

Director of Photography: Jerzy Wójcik

Production Designer: Roman Mann

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Cenizas y diamantes"

"Пепел и диамант"

"Cinzas e Diamantes"

"Cenizas y diamantes"

"Asche und Diamant"

"Aske og diamanter"

"Cenizas y diamantes"

"Aska och diamant"

"Tuhkaa ja timantteja"

"Tuhkaa ja timanttia"

"Cendres et diamant"

"Stahtes kai diamantia"

"Hamu és gyémánt"

"Cenere e diamanti"

"재와 다이아몬드"

"Cenizas y diamantes"

"As en diamanten"

"Popiół i diament"

"Pepeo i dijamanti"

"Пепел и алмаз"

"Aska och diamanter"

"灰燼與鑽石"

Keywords: post world war ii, post war, post-war poland, polish resistance, soviet military

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Ashes and Diamonds(Movie, 1958)

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