Ashes and diamonds

The third part of a massive trilogy dedicated to the youth of Poland in the Second World War. In this extract the action takes place in the late afternoon preceeding the Communist liberation. The hero, Maciek, leads the resistance group, which owes allegiance to the Polish National Government exiled in London. His orders are to assassinate the new Communist District Secretary, Szczuka. Based on the book “Ashes and diamonds” by Jerzy Andrzejewski.

Credits

Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Written by
Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski
Cast
Ignacy Machowski, Ryszard Pietruski, Zofia Czerwińska, Adam Pawlikowski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Artur Młodnicki, Halina Kwiatkowska, Barbara Krafftówna, Bogumił Kobiela, Stanisław Milski, Adolf Chronicki, Józef Pieracki, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Tadeusz Kalinowski, Wiktor Grotowicz, Zbigniew Skowroński
Produced by
Roman Mann
Cinematography
Jerzy Wójcik

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q722281 ↗ — year, creator, length, color, country, genre, credits