Ashes and DiamondsMovie
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.
About Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds is a 1958 drama, war, romance movie directed by Andrzej Wajda.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 43m, production credits from Poland, an original language code of PL.
The credited cast includes Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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