Ashes and Diamonds

Release date: Oct 3, 1958

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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Top Cast

Maciek Chełmicki

Krystyna Rozbicka

Szczuka

Andrzej Kossecki

Drewnowski

Porter

Pieniążek

Kotowicz

Staniewiczowa

Waga

Slomka

Stefka

Święcki

Lili

Jurgieluszka

Puciatycka

Hanka Lewicka

Maj. Wrona

Podgórski

Franek Pawlicki

Smolarski

Wejchert

Staszek Gawlik

Puciatycki

Musician (uncredited)

Marek Szczuka (uncredited)

Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)

Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)

(uncredited)

Militiaman (uncredited)

Militiaman (uncredited)

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