Ashes and Diamonds
Directed by
Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
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.
| Released | 3 Oct 1958 |
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| Genres | Drama, Romance, War |
| Runtime | 1 hour, 43 minutes |
| Countries | Poland |
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I saw Ashes and Diamonds for the first time in 1961. And … it shocked me. It had to do with the look, both immediate and haunted, like a nightmare that won’t stop unfolding … The film has the power of a hallucination: I can close my eyes and certain images will flash back to me with the force they had when I saw them for the first time over fifty years ago.
