Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chelmicki
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Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popiół i diament) is a 1958 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. Starring Zbigniew Cybulski and Ewa Krzyżewska, it completed Wajda's war films trilogy, following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956).
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- Zespół realizatorów filmowych „Kadr”
- Ashes and Diamonds, 1948 novel, by Jerzy Andrzejewski
Ashes and Diamonds: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski. As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1961-05-29
A Polish assassin (Zbigniew Cybulski) is given orders to kill a Russian soldier (Waclaw Zastrzezynsky) whom he, days before, was fighting alongside, and this moral...
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- Zbigniew Cybulski
- Andrzej Wajda
- Drama
In a small Polish town on the final day of World War II, Maciek (the coolly charismatic Zbigniew Cybulski), a fighter in the underground anti-Communist resistance movement, has orders to assassinate an incoming commissar.
- Maciek Chelmicki
On 8 May 1945, the year of Germany's surrender, a post-war Poland finds itself struggling to rise from the ashes, as ambitious cliques of patrician patriots, determined Communists, Soviet soldiers, and brave anti-German resistance fighters all jockey for position.
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On May 7, 1945, V-E Day, Andrzej and Maciek, two resistance fighters in a small Polish town, receive orders from their headquarters in London to assassinate the newly arrived Communist Party secretary, Szczuka.
Gorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed, Ashes and Diamonds masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man, resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time. 90 IMDb 7.7 1 h 42 min 1961. X-Ray 13+.
