Thu Feb 18 · 4:00pm
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Andrzej Wajda's 1958 film is set on 8 May 1945, the day the war in Europe ends, when Maciek Chełmicki (Zbigniew Cybulski), a young Home Army soldier, is ordered to kill an incoming Communist official in a provincial Polish town; over one night in its hotel, and an affair with the barmaid Krystyna, he begins to doubt the job. It completes Wajda's war trilogy after A Generation and Kanał.