Ashes and Diamonds

About Ashes and Diamonds

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else.

Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds is a 1958 romance war film. Its themes are post world war ii, post war, soviet military, and polish resistance.

Zbigniew Cybulski stars as Maciek Chełmicki, Ewa Krzyżewska as Krystyna Rozbicka, Wacław Zastrzeżynski as Szczuka, and Adam Pawlikowski as Andrzej Kossecki. At 103 minutes long, it arrived in October 1958.

The screenplay is by Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Andrzejewski. American members can watch it on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

The Third Man, To Be or Not to Be, and Kanal make useful companions to Ashes and Diamonds, all filed under black and white. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 294 votes.