Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds

  • Director: Andrzej Wajda
  • Writer: Jerzy Andrzejewski,Andrzej Wajda
  • Countries of origin: Poland
  • Language: Polish
  • Release date: May 29, 1961
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Pepel in diamant
  • "Ashes and Diamonds" is a feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Zbigniew Cybulski and Eve Krzysevska. It was released on October 3, 1958.
    The film is adapted from the novel "The War Just Ended" by Polish writer Jerzy Andyevski. It tells the story of a right-wing killer Macek who was ordered to kill the party secretary in Poland.

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    • Release date May 29, 1961
    • Filming locations Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
    • Production companies Studio Filmowe Kadr

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    Budget

    PLN 6,070,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Therese 2022-03-21 09:03:04

      The hesitation in the "victory moment"

      When I first started watching the movie, I realized that the protagonist looked like a netizen I knew when I was a master! Oops, the kind with a very attractive and attractive face.

      And Marchek also exudes a charming atmosphere between boys and men. There is a manly mature and leisurely gesture between gestures, and leisurely turns into a naughty expression in the next moment. Yes, even if he has experienced wars and uprisings, he is only 17 years old after...

    • By Rubye 2022-01-20 08:01:35

      A description of sunglasses

      The deceptiveness of the sunglasses and the camouflage of the one-sided face differentiates Macik and Andrzej into two completely different people. Macik, who has two eyes, wears sunglasses whether he is performing an assassination mission or is usually resting in a hotel. , The eyes are the extension of the soul. Macic disguised his self and showed others an "Assassin" who was extremely loyal to his duties. The character and the audience could not and did not need to get the true part of...

    • By Hermina 2022-01-20 08:01:35

      The image of the white horse running through the imagined community

      1. In 1945, Germany was defeated and the Polish society expelling foreign aggression did not usher in real peace. Vendettas between different factions and bureaucrats appear from time to time... The film won the Fabici Award of International Film Critics at the Venice Film Festival in 1959. It is the finale of the war trilogy of Andrzej Wajda, the leader of the Polish film school.

      2. In the film, the frame composition of the picture frame is used many times...

    • By Wayne 2022-01-20 08:01:35

      "Embers and Diamonds" movie script

      "Embers and Diamonds" movie script

      Text/[Poland] Jerzy Anjeevsky, Anje Wajda

      Translation/Chen Tingbao

      School/Feng Youli

      It is a sunny noon. The skylarks sang high in the sky. On a small patch of grass near a small country chapel, Matek Hermitsky stood up and lay lazily on the grass. He appeared very calm and even planned to sleep it: he closed his eyes, stretched his waist, and yawned loudly. Next to him, Anjie Goshetsky was lying on the grass with his...

    • By Lon 2022-01-20 08:01:35

      Ashes and Diamonds of Anjay Vaida

      Unfamiliar with Polish history, it is difficult to read the omitted part of Anjay Wajda's film.
          Among Polish directors, the traditional gentry character inherited from generation to generation, the romanticism tradition of the nineteenth century, and the consciousness of the intellectual class are probably a swan song here. Zanussi is hard to find, let alone people like Polanski and Jerzy Skolimowski. He is a typical Polish, like his own ill-fated motherland, obsessed with failure and...

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    • By Lew 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      After the feast, the cups and plates are messed up, and the aftermath of the war is in vain. Goodbye, my dear, goodbye, my...

    • By Westley 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      Too many meaningless characters and scenes completely overwhelm the main characters and the main plot. Mirror language is worth learning...

    • By Rosalia 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      The love he met was as precious as a diamond, but he could only have it for one night, and when he died, his beloved woman danced with a group of revellers expressionlessly, and the diamond turned to ashes. This is his fate, this is the product of political activities, he cannot escape the bondage, just like every ordinary person in it, endure, accept, accept his fate, the end of one war is the beginning of another war, the night sky The fireworks were just a brief...

    • By Theo 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      【Beijing Film Festival Screening】Polish characters at the end of World War II. It was a little confusing at first, very dull. After being integrated into the narrative, he was moved by the hesitation of the male protagonist. Although the ending is not difficult to predict, it is still sad. The exquisite black and white light and shadow picture makes people...

    • By Jarrod 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      Big screen rewatch, plus one star. Full of craftsmanship, a story of crime and punishment, a movie that truly depicts the soul, full of dramatic scheduling, and irregular composition angles, Marchek condenses Vajda's reflections full of humanistic care, and the poems on the wall are subtitles. Too bad, take a tlf version of "You don't know whether the flame brings freedom or death, exhausting all your most precious things, leaving only ashes and...

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    "Ashes and Diamonds" features gorgeous photography and a breathtaking performance by the male lead Cibulski, which is the pinnacle of Polish cinema at all times. The director’s interest in the film has shifted from facts to deeper thinking and innuendo criticism of reality (review of "Universal Screen")  .
    "Ashes and Diamonds" is the perfect combination of Waida and Sibski. Together, they have portrayed the male protagonist as one of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Krystyna: Look. An old crypt. An inscription. "So often are you as a blazing torch with flames of burning hemp falling about you flaming, you know not if the flames bring freedom or death, consuming all that you most cherish. Will only ashes remain, and chaos whirling into the void." The letters are blurred. I can't read it.

      Maciek Chelmicki: It's by Norwid. "Or will the ashes hold the glory of a starlike diamond, the Morning Star of everlasting triumph."

      Krystyna: That's beautiful. "Or will the ashes hold the glory of a starlike diamond..." And what are we?

      Maciek Chelmicki: You - are definitely a diamond.

    • Szczuka: I'd be a bad communist, comrades, if I were to reassure you like a bunch of naive kids. The end of the war isn't the end of our fight. The fight for Poland and what kind of country it's to become has only just begun. Today or tomorrow or the day after, any one of us could die.

    • Maciek Chelmicki: Warsaw girls. Makes me want to stay.

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