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Ashes and Diamonds (1958) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 3, 1958

Original Title:
Popiół i diament

Alternate Titles:
As en diamanten
Asche und Diamant
Ashes and Diamonds
Aska och diamant
Aska och diamanter
Aske og diamanter
Cendres et diamant
Cenere e diamanti
Cenizas y diamantes
Cinzas e Diamantes
Hamu és gyémánt
Pepeo i dijamanti
Popiół i diament
Stahtes kai diamantia
Tuhkaa ja timantteja
Tuhkaa ja timanttia
Пепел и алмаз
Пепел и диамант
灰燼與鑽石
재와 다이아몬드

Genres:
Drama | Romance | War

Production Companies:
Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Production Countries:
Poland

Ratings / Certifications:
AR: 16  DE: 16  FI: K-16  SE: 15 

Runtime: 103

Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers

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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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Production

Assistant Camera:
Wiesław Zdort
Zygmunt Krusznicki
Jerzy Szurowski
Bogdan Myśliński

Assistant Director:
Anita Janeczkowa
Jan Włodarczyk
Andrzej Wróbel

Assistant Editor:
Irena Choryńska

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Halina Ber
Halina Zajac

Assistant Production Design:
Jarosław Świtoniak
Leszek Wajda
Marian Kowaliński

Assistant Production Manager:
Ludwik Hager

Camera Operator:
Krzysztof Winiewicz

Conductor:
Filip Nowak

Costume Design:
Katarzyna Chodorowicz

Director:
Andrzej Wajda

Director of Photography:
Jerzy Wójcik

Editor:
Halina Nawrocka

First Assistant Director:
Janusz Morgenstern

Makeup Artist:
Halina Sieńska

Music Arranger:
Filip Nowak

Novel:
Jerzy Andrzejewski

Production Design:
Roman Mann

Production Manager:
Stanisław Adler

Screenplay:
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Andrzej Wajda

Sound:
Bohdan Bieńkowski

Unit Manager:
Zygmunt Wójcik
Michał Sosiński

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