Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Directed by Andrzej Wajda · 103 min · Drama, War, Romance
49.6 TOPICAL score · #1,954 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Ashes and Diamonds (1958, directed by Andrzej Wajda) has a TOPICAL score of 49.6 - ranked 1,954 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and audience, and lowest on awards. Critics: 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences: TMDB 7.4/10 (293 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 36 languages.
Why this score
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- Critics96% on Rotten Tomatoes
- AudienceTMDB 7.4/10 (293 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 36 languages
- Still read9,085 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski