Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
With Bogumił Kobiela, Stanisław Milski, Barbara Krafftówna, Ewa Krzyżewska, Adam Pawlikowski, Ignacy Machowski, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Artur Młodnicki
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
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.
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