Ashes and Diamonds

Popiół i diament, 1958, 108 min.

Ashes and Diamond (1958)

Awards

1959
IFF in Venice
FIPRESCI Award

1967
IFF in Addis Ababa
Recognition

Production

Director Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay Jerzy Andrzejewsli, Andrzej Wajda
Cinematography Jerzy Wojcik
Music Jan Krenz
Art Direction Roman Mann
Cast
Maciek Chelmicki Zbigniew Cybulski
Krystyna Ewa Krzyzewska
Szczuka Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Andrzej Adam Pawlikowski
Drewnowski Bogumil Kobiela
Mrs. Stankiewicz Halina Kwiatkowska
Stefka Barbara Krafftowna
Story

In the closing days of WWII, a Polish resistance fighter assassinates the wrong man, tries to find love with the right women, and questions the meaning of struggle. A seminal Eastern European masterpiece that defined a generation of pre-solidarity Poles. The last installment of the trilogy that includes “A Generation” and “Canal“.