Cendres et diamant
Andrzej Wajda
1945, Armistice Day in a small Polish village, in the midst of fighting between communists and nationalists. Maciek, a young, battle-hardened nationalist, is ordered to kill the new regional secretary of the Party. But him and his group get the wrong target. While waiting to complete his mission he has an affair with a waitress...
With : Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski
Screenplay : Andrzej Wajda et Jerzy Andrzejewski
Image : Jerzy Wójcik
Editing : Halina Nawrocka
Decors : Roman Mann
Costumes : Katarzyna Chodorowicz
Music : Filip Nowak
Screenplay : Andrzej Wajda et Jerzy Andrzejewski
Image : Jerzy Wójcik
Editing : Halina Nawrocka
Decors : Roman Mann
Costumes : Katarzyna Chodorowicz
Music : Filip Nowak
Production : Zespól Filmowy Kadr
Distribution: Jeck Film
Distribution: Jeck Film
According to René Clair "this film is one of the high points in world cinema". With its twilight black and white, Wajda's third film describes the endless night of heroes lost between Good and Evil. "With my modest film, I want to show audiences the complex and difficult world of this particular generation, the generation I myself belong to" (Andrzej Wajda). In this film he shows the post-war generation "between yesterday's heroes and tomorrow's profiteers, the despairing of today" (Louis Marcorelles). According to Philippe Parrain "it is possible to reposition and decipher Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamond) in a historical perspective but the idea of the film is different – it is an evocation of a certain lyricism of defeat".