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 Chelmicki |
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Ewa Krzyzewska | Krystyna |
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Waclaw Zastrzezynski | Szczuka |
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Adam Pawlikowski | Andrzej |
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Bogumil Kobiela | Drewnowski |
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Jan Ciecierski | Portier |
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Stanislaw Milski | Pieniazek |
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Artur Mlodnicki | Kotowicz |
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Halina Kwiatkowska | Staniewiczowa |
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Ignacy Machowski | Waga |
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Zbigniew Skowroński | Slomka |
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Barbara Krafftówna | Stefka |
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Aleksander Sewruk | Swiecki |
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Zofia Czerwinska | Barmaid Lili |
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Wiktor Grotowicz | Franek Pawlicki |
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Irena Orzecka | Jurgieluszka |
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Mieczyslaw Loza | Smolarski |
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Halina Siekierko | Puciatycka |
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Tadeusz Kalinowski | Wejchert |
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Grazyna Staniszewska | Hanka Lewicka |
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Ferdynand Matysik | Staszek Gawlik |
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Jerzy Adamczak | Maj. Wrona |
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Józef Pieracki | Puciatycki |
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Adolf Chronicki | Podgórski |
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Juliusz Grabowski | Musician |
| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
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| Writer | Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda | |
| Musician | Filip Nowak | |
| Photography | Jerzy Wójcik | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.66:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Mono [Polish] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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| Quantity | 1 |
| Index | 2124 |
| Added Date | Dec 10, 2018 20:58:21 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:46 |
Part of the Three War Films box set
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by film scholar Annette Insdorf
Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and Diamonds, a 35-minute exclusive new interview with the director, second director Janusz Morgenstern, and film critic Jerzy Plazewski
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New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Paul Coates
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