# Asche und Diamant (1958)

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**Original title**: *Popiół i diament*
**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Drama, War, Romance
**Directed by**: Andrzej Wajda
**Written by**: Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski
**Starring**: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski

> *Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A lone soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, gets a messy assassination assignment just as war winds down. When a mix-up leads to an accidental killing his resolve starts to wobble. Twenty-four hours of aimless wandering make the diamond-hard oath feel more like ash.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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