Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Popiół i diament
"Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers"
ThumbScore
👍 88%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 96%
(RT: 96%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chełmicki
Ewa Krzyżewska as Krystyna Rozbicka
Wacław Zastrzeżynski as Szczuka
Adam Pawlikowski as Andrzej Kossecki
Bogumił Kobiela as Drewnowski
Jan Ciecierski as Porter
Stanisław Milski as Pieniążek
Artur Młodnicki as Kotowicz
Is Ashes and Diamonds good?
Yes. 88% audience score, estimated from 293 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 96%.
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Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
