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  • Ashes and Diamonds 1958 POSTER

    Ashes and Diamonds

    1958

    Polish

    7.7

    11

    96%

    87%

    black and white

    criterion

    Drama

    polish resistance

    post war

    post world war ii

    Romance

    soviet military

    War

    Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Director Zofia Czerwinska Zofia Czerwinska as Barmaid Lili Stanislaw Milski Stanislaw Milski as Pieniazek Aleksander Sewruk Aleksander Sewruk as Swiecki Ryszard Pietruski Ryszard Pietruski as Worker in the Crowd
    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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