Ashes and Diamonds — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Directed by Andrzej Wajda

• Zbigniew Cybulski
  as Maciek Chełmicki
• Ewa Krzyżewska
  as Krystyna Rozbicka
• Wacław Zastrzeżynski
  as Szczuka
• Adam Pawlikowski
  as Andrzej Kossecki
• Bogumił Kobiela
  as Drewnowski
• Jan Ciecierski
  as Porter

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