Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki

Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka

Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Szczuka

Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki

Bogumił Kobiela
Drewnowski

Jan Ciecierski
Porter

Stanisław Milski
Pieniążek

Artur Młodnicki
Kotowicz

Halina Kwiatkowska
Staniewiczowa

Ignacy Machowski
Waga

Zbigniew Skowroński
Slomka

Barbara Krafftówna
Stefka

Aleksander Sewruk
Święcki

Zofia Czerwińska
Lili

Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka

Halina Siekierko
Puciatycka

Grażyna Staniszewska
Hanka Lewicka

Jerzy Adamczak
Maj. Wrona

Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski

Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki

Mieczysław Łoza
Smolarski

Tadeusz Kalinowski
Wejchert

Ferdynand Matysik
Staszek Gawlik

Józef Pieracki
Puciatycki

Juliusz Grabowski
Musician (uncredited)

Jerzy Jogałła
Marek Szczuka (uncredited)

Roman Mikuła
Man sitting next to Drewnowski (uncredited)

Ryszard Pietruski
Worker in a Cement Plant (uncredited)

Cyryl Przybył
(uncredited)

Marian Skorupa
Militiaman (uncredited)

Marian Wiśniowski
Militiaman (uncredited)

Andrzej Wajda
Director / Screenplay

Jerzy Wójcik
Director of Photography

Roman Mann
Production Design

Andrzej Wróbel
Assistant Director

Katarzyna Chodorowicz
Costume Design

Bohdan Bieńkowski
Sound

Halina Sieńska
Makeup Artist

Halina Nawrocka
Editor

Jan Włodarczyk
Assistant Director

Anita Janeczkowa
Assistant Director

Jerzy Andrzejewski
Novel / Screenplay

Marian Kowaliński
Assistant Production Design

Zygmunt Wójcik
Unit Manager

Jerzy Szurowski
Assistant Camera

Ludwik Hager
Assistant Production Manager

Zygmunt Krusznicki
Assistant Camera

Irena Choryńska
Assistant Editor

Halina Ber
Assistant Makeup Artist

Halina Zajac
Assistant Makeup Artist

Bogdan Myśliński
Assistant Camera

Stanisław Adler
Production Manager

Krzysztof Winiewicz
Camera Operator

Leszek Wajda
Assistant Production Design

Filip Nowak
Conductor / Music Arranger

Jarosław Świtoniak
Assistant Production Design
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Details.
Release DateOctober 3, 1958
Original NamePopiół i diament
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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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). The action of Ashes and Diamonds takes place in 1945, shortly after World War II. The main protagonist of the film, former Home Army soldier Maciek Chełmicki, is acting in the anti-Communist underground. Maciek receives an order to kill Szczuka, the local secretary of the Polish Workers' Party. Over time, Chełmicki increasingly doubts if his task is worth doing.
Ashes and Diamonds, although based on the novel that directly supported the postwar Communist system in Poland, was subtly modified in comparison with the source material. Wajda sympathized with the soldiers of the Polish independence underground; thus, he devoted most of the attention to Chełmicki. During the three-month development of Ashes and Diamonds, the director made drastic changes to the baseline scenario, thanks to his assistant director Janusz Morgenstern, as well as Cybulski, who played the leading role. The film received permission from the authorities to be distributed only through Andrzejewski's intercession. The film did not receive permission to be screened at the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. However, Ashes and Diamonds appeared at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI award.
At first, Ashes and Diamonds met positive critical reception, both in Poland and worldwide. However, after the Revolutions of 1989, it was criticized for falsifying the collective memory of Polish partisans. Nevertheless, the film has maintained its reputation as one of the most famous Polish motion pictures in history.
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