
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. 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.
Top Billed Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki

Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka

Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Szczuka

Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki

Bogumił Kobiela
Drewnowski
Featured Crew

Andrzej Wajda
Director

Jerzy Wójcik
Director of Photography
Roman Mann
Production Design

Jerzy Andrzejewski
Novel

Jerzy Andrzejewski
Screenplay

Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay
Halina Nawrocka
Editor
Katarzyna Chodorowicz
Costume Design
Anita Janeczkowa
Assistant Director

Jan Włodarczyk
Assistant Director
Andrzej Wróbel
Assistant Director
Bohdan Bieńkowski
Sound