Directed by:
Andrzej WajdaCinematography:
Jerzy WójcikCast:
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanislaw Milski, Artur Mlodnicki (more)Plots(1)
Wajda’s most renowned film and landmark of international cinema, Ashes and Diamonds takes place on the final day of WWII, as a young Resistance fighter is assigned to assassinate a Communist official. Perfectly realised, the film is also renowned for its electrifying, iconic, era-defining performance by Zbigniew Cybulski. This vision of Poland poised between the horrors of the recent past and an uncertain future, and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in a time of transition, is arguably Wajda’s greatest work. (Second Run)
(more)Cast
![Zbigniew Cybulski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/408/166408221_3fb559.png)
Zbigniew Cybulski
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Love at Twenty (1962)
![Ewa Krzyżewska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/266/166266214_40c5a0.png)
Ewa Krzyżewska
Poland
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
The Bells Toll for the Barefooted (1965)
Pharaoh (1965)
Wacław Zastrzeżyński
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Adam Pawlikowski
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Canal (1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
![Bogumił Kobiela](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/989/158989259_c21c96.jpg)
Bogumił Kobiela
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Eroica (1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
![Jan Ciecierski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/578/166578543_3b2f87.png)
Jan Ciecierski
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
The Conductor (1980)
Provincial Actors (1979)
Stanislaw Milski
Poland
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Birth Certificate (1961)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Artur Mlodnicki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
The Last Stop (1948)
Halina Kwiatkowska
Poland
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
And Along Come Tourists (2007)
![Ignacy Machowski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/436/166436518_e78201.jpg)
Ignacy Machowski
Poland
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Eroica (1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
![Zbigniew Skowroński](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/311/166311501_5216b4.png)
Zbigniew Skowroński
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Birth Certificate (1961)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
![Barbara Krafftówna](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/251/166251174_93d4c3.png)
Barbara Krafftówna
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Nobody's Calling (1960)
Aleksander Sewruk
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Night Train (1959)
Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)
![Zofia Czerwińska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/983/158983710_005f50.jpg)
Zofia Czerwińska
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
Con amore (1976)
Eroica (1957)
Irena Orzecka
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Tadeusz Kalinowski
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
Wiktor Grotowicz
Poland
Best movies:
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)
Mieczyslaw Loza
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Ferdynand Matysik
Poland
Best movies:
Potop (1974)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1984)
Adolf Chronicki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
How I Unleashed World War II (1970)