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Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzej Wajda`s adaptation of Jerzy Andrzejewski classic novel comprises the third part of the director`s World War II trilogy. Set in the immediate postwar era of 1945, the film stars Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chelmicki, a gunman for the Polish un...
Andrzej Wajda`s adaptation of Jerzy Andrzejewski classic novel comprises the third part of the director`s World War II trilogy. Set in the immediate postwar era of 1945, the film stars Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chelmicki, a gunman for the Polish underground. When he and another operative, Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski), ambush a jeep in which the new Communist party secretary, Szczuka (Waclaw Zastrzezynski), is supposed to be arriving, they find that he was never in the jeep. Maciek`s superiors in the underground order him to make another attempt on Szczuka`s life, and both Maciek and his target end up checking into the same hotel. While waiting to take down his quarry, Maciek has a fling with a barmaid, Krystyna (Ewa Krzyzanowska), that makes him question his commitment to the cloak-and-dagger life of the underground. A party celebrating the liberation goes on in the ground floor convention room, ironic for Maciek, who knows that a new war is just beginning. At daybreak, he leaves the barmaid and goes to execute his orders. Widely regarded as the best of Wajda`s early films, the powerful antiwar statement features extraordinary work by the short-lived Cybulski, often described as the Polish James Dean.
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