

Ashes and Diamonds(1958)
"Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers"
Overview
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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Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki

Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka

Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Szczuka

Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki

Bogumił Kobiela
Drewnowski

Jan Ciecierski
Porter

Stanisław Milski
Pieniążek

Artur Młodnicki
Kotowicz

Halina Kwiatkowska
Staniewiczowa

Ignacy Machowski
Waga

Zbigniew Skowroński
Slomka

Barbara Krafftówna
Stefka

Aleksander Sewruk
Święcki

Zofia Czerwińska
Lili

Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka
Halina Siekierko
Puciatycka

Grażyna Staniszewska
Hanka Lewicka
Jerzy Adamczak
Maj. Wrona

Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski

Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki

Mieczysław Łoza
Smolarski

Tadeusz Kalinowski
Wejchert

Ferdynand Matysik
Staszek Gawlik

Józef Pieracki
Puciatycki

Juliusz Grabowski
Musician (uncredited)

Jerzy Jogałła
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)
Roman Mikuła
Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)

Ryszard Pietruski
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)
Cyryl Przybył
(uncredited)
Marian Skorupa
Militiaman (uncredited)

Marian Wiśniowski
Militiaman (uncredited)
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