Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
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- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 105 mins
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Ashes and Diamonds
This is the last film in the trilogy that began Andrzej Wajda's career as a director. Preceding this wartime drama are Pokolenie (1955) and Kanal (1957). Once again, Wajda presents a strong anti-war statement, this time in the personae of two men who are given orders on the last day of World War II in Poland to murder a leading communist. The orders come from the part of the resistance that opposes the new communist regime. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend, Zbigniew Cybulski, plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader -- and the results are not what he expected. In 1959, Popiol I Diament won in competition at the British Academy Awards and at the Venice Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Ashes and Diamonds:
Jan Ciecierski also in Samson
Ignacy Machowski also in First Spaceship on Venus , Pociag , Eroica
Stanislaw Milski also in Under the Phrygian Star , Celuloza
Arthur Mlodnicki also in Lotna
Zbigniew Skowronski also in Celuloza
Grazyna Staniszewska also in Krzyzacy
Jozef Pieracki also in Zamach Stanu
Ashes and Diamonds Trivia
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