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.

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  Zbigniew Cybulski

  Maciek Chełmicki
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  Ewa Krzyżewska

  Krystyna Rozbicka
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  Wacław Zastrzeżynski

  Szczuka
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  Adam Pawlikowski

  Andrzej Kossecki
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  Bogumił Kobiela

  Drewnowski
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  Jan Ciecierski

  Porter
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  Stanisław Milski

  Pieniążek
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  Artur Młodnicki

  Kotowicz
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  Halina Kwiatkowska

  Staniewiczowa
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  Ignacy Machowski

  Waga