Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament) (1958)

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Directed by

Andrzej Wajda

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Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chelmicki

Ewa Krzyzewska
Krystyna

Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Szczuka

Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej

Bogumil Kobiela
Drewnowski

Jan Ciecierski
Portier

Stanislaw Milski
Pieniazek

Artur Mlodnicki
Kotowicz

Written by

Andrzej Wajda
screenplay

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Description: Ashes and Diamonds The last day of the war. The morning of the first day of peace. That special night and the fate of a young man caught up in the past, tired of heroism, sensing a different, better life. What a beautiful subject for a film. On that special night the past and present meet and sit down at one table. To the rhythm of tangos and foxtrots Maciek Chelmicki searches for an answer: how to live, how to rid himself of the suffocating burden of the past. He solves the eternal dilemma of the soldier: to obey or to think? But nevertheless Maciek kills... He would rather kill a man, even against his own will, than g ... (more)

Release date: 29 May 1961
UPC: 644527214399

Tags: Poland (9), War (6), Polish (5), 1950s (5), Drama (4), Soldier (4), 1958 (4), Singing (3), Symbolism (3), Singer (3), Portrait (3), Whistle (3), B&w (2), WWII (2), Lieutenant (2), Friend (2), Cigarette Smoking (2), Machine Gun (2), Face Slap (2), Communist (2)

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