Ashes and Diamonds Movie Review 1958

In the closing days of WWII, young Polish resistance fighter Maciek (Cybulski) is sent to a small town to assassinate a Communist Party official. Waiting around in a hotel, Maciek romances the beautiful barmaid, Krystyna (Krzysewska), and questions the meaning of struggle. A seminal Eastern European masterpiece that defined a generation of pre-solidarity Poles. The last installment of the trilogy that includes "A Generation" and "Kanal" and based on a novel by Jerzy Andrzewski. Polish with subtitles.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 105 minutes.
Originally from Polish.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Assassination

Screenplay

Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski

Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski, Eva Krzyzewska, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Waclaw Zastrzezynski

Cinematography

Jerzy Wojcik

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Music

Jan Krenz, Filip Nowak

Producer

Film Unit KADR