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  1. 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).

  2. Ashes and Diamonds: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski. As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.

    • (14K)
    • Drama, Romance, War
    • Andrzej Wajda
    • 1961-05-29
  3. Ashes and Diamonds’ lustrous monochrome cinematographywreathed in shadows, smoke, and fog—and spectacularly choreographed set pieces lend a breathtaking visual dynamism to this urgent, incendiary vision of a country at a crossroads in its struggle for self-determination.

    • Maciek Chelmicki
  4. Jun 26, 2023 · A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajdathe final film in his celebrated war trilogy—entwines the story of one man’s moral crisis with the fate of a nation.

    • 103 min
  5. It's May 1945, and Nazi Germany has just surrendered. The war is over, but not in Poland. As the German soldiers vacate, the remaining Russian forces and Polish resistance fighters must work out ...

    • (26)
    • Zbigniew Cybulski
    • Andrzej Wajda
    • Drama
  6. May 21, 2020 · This 1958 film, directed by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, is based on a novel from 1948 written by Jerzy Andrzejewski. It follows the story of Maciek, who is a young resistance fighter, ordered to kill the Communist leader, Szczuka, in the final days of WWII.

  7. Aug 24, 2021 · A ndrzej Wajdas Ashes and Diamonds (1958) has rightly been lauded as one of the finest of postwar East-Central European films, and the most vital work of the Polish School, the group of filmmakers who, starting in the midfifties, cast startlingly truthful images of the recent war and its aftermath, putting Polish cinema on the ...