Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament) 66 years old

Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers

Ashes and Diamonds

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 the hierarchies of power in "liberated" Communist Poland. A Polish assassin is given orders to kill a Russian soldier whom he, days before, was fighting alongside, and this moral conflict makes him question the goals for which he has been fighting.

Credits

Ashes and Diamonds Cast

Name Character
Bogumił Kobiela He was 29, 38 years old when he died as Drewnowski
Ewa Krzyżewska She was 22, 64 years old when she died as Krystyna
Adam Pawlikowski He was 35, 50 years old when he died as Andrzej
Stanisław Milski He was 61, 75 years old when he died as Pieniążek
Zbigniew Cybulski He was 33, 39 years old when he died as Maciek Chelmicki
Halina Kwiatkowska She was 40, now 103 years old as Staniewiczowa
Waclaw Zastrzezynski as Szczuka
Barbara Krafftówna She was 32, now 95 years old as Stefka

Ashes and Diamonds Crew

Name Department
Jerzy Andrzejewski as Screenplay. He was 51 (73) years old when He died Writing
Jerzy Andrzejewski as Novel. He was 51 (73) years old when He died Writing
Filip Nowak as Original Music Composer. Sound
Jerzy Wójcik as Director of Photography. He was 30 (73) years old when He died Camera
Ashes and Diamonds poster
Ashes and Diamonds (66 years)

Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers

  • Release day: Friday, October 03, 1958
  • Runtime: 103 minutes