Ashes and Diamonds

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.

Cast for Ashes and Diamonds...

Zbigniew Cybulski
Maciek Chełmicki
Ewa Krzyżewska
Krystyna Rozbicka
Adam Pawlikowski
Andrzej Kossecki
Halina Kwiatkowska
Staniewiczowa
Irena Orzecka
Jurgieluszka
Jerzy Adamczak
Maj. Wrona
Adolf Chronicki
Podgórski
Wiktor Grotowicz
Franek Pawlicki
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)