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Ashes and Diamond

PopióƂ i diament (Once upon a time)

Andrzej Wajda

29.06 Galeries 15:00 TICKET
Fiction/Drama . 103' . Poland . 1958 . PL / ST : FR/EN

A young soldier from the academy, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the PPR central committee. By coincidence, he kills someone else. Meeting his victim face to face, he is shocked. He is forced to repeat his assassination attempt. He meets Krystyna, a young girl who works as a barmaid in the Monopol hotel restaurant. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the absurdity of the killings at the end of the war. His loyalty to his oath, and therefore his duty to obey his orders, tips the balance.

STARRING

Zbigniew Cybulski
Ewa Krzyzewska
WacƂaw ZastrzeĆŒyƄski
Jerzy WĂłjcik
Adam Pawlikowski
BogumiƂ Kobiela
Ignacy Machowski
Jan Ciecierski

DIRECTOR 

Andrzej Wajda

WRITER

Jerzy Andrzejewski

 

SOUND 

Bohdan BieƄkowski

IMAGE 

Jerzy WĂłjcik

EDITOR

Halina Nawrocka

MUSIC 

Fryderyk Chopin, MichaƂ Kleofas OgiƄski & Jan Krenz

 

PRODUCTION 

KADR studio

 

Andrzej Wajda

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Born to a career soldier father and a schoolteacher mother, Andrzej Wajda was just thirteen when the Second World War broke out. His father was killed in action in September 1939, and the young Andrzej was forced to work to support his family. He worked as a cooper, locksmith, fresco restorer, etc. In 1942, he joined the Resistance and opposed communism. After completing his classical studies in 1946, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where, with painter Andrzej Wroblewki, he founded the Autodictact Group, a movement influenced by neo-realism. He then studied film at the University of Lodz, graduating in 1952.

FILMOGRAPHY

KanaƂ (1957)

Dyrygent (1980)

CzƂowiek z ĆŒelaza (1981)

Korczak (1990)

 

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