Ashes and Diamonds

Thursday 11th March 2010 at 11am

1hr 43. Poland 1958. Directed by Andrzej Wajda.

This is the last film in the trilogy that began Andrzej Wajda's career as a director. Once again, Wajda presents a strong anti-war statement, this time in the personae of two men who are given orders on the last day of World War II in Poland to murder a leading communist. The orders come from the part of the resistance that opposes the new communist regime. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend, Zbigniew Cybulski, plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader - and the results are not what he expected. -All Movie Guide