Great Film overall

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It's the end of WWII. Poland has a mix of resistant fighters. With the flood of Soviet troops, the communists are taking over. Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) and Andrzej are assigned to kill a local communist leader Szczuka. They mistakenly kill a couple of cement workers instead. Fellow fighters are being rounded up and killed. Maciek is conflicted and falls for beautiful bartender Krystyna.Zbigniew Cybulski wearing the sunglasses has the flair of James Dean. He's the most compelling character in a sea of less compelling characters. I would have liked to stay with him 100% of the time. I'm also unsure about whether James Dean fits in an espionage thriller. That's why I would like to concentrate on his inner struggles and his romance with Krystyna. Zbigniew creates a memorable character in a chaotic world.

At the close of World War II, a Polish partisan who fought in the Resistance feels ambivalent about a new assignment: to assassinate a Communist Party boss considered too sympathetic to the Soviet Union.A dazzling performance by the charismatic Zbigniew Cybulski, who was briefly hailed as Europe's new James Dean, in a work that blends noir elements with the texture of a war film. Haunting, moving, and suffused with the fatigue felt by a man who suffered through a long gruelling conflict. Ashes And Diamonds completed director Andrzej Wajda's war films trilogy, following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956).The title comes from a 19th Century poem by Cyprian Norwid and references the manner in which diamonds are formed from heat and pressure acting upon coal.

A masterpiece for all time. One of those films that one can not watch, which simply can not. Its like any genuine work of art can be seen at different levels: here - and the gunman, and the detective and love story, and the human drama, amounting to tragedy, and this is the existential drama and thinking about the national character, the fate of Poland - all for striking deeper level translation. It is unique in the film work of the operator, as built by frame, as planned, each episode. The game actors, so can we call this game??? Tsibulsky does not play, he just lives in this film! Some episodes ever sink into the mind: machine turn, opens the door to the church, a hapless, drop dead right at the altar ( "Lord Jesus" delivers one of the killers, in my opinion, Drevnovsky), a scene where she sings "Red poppies Monte -Cassini, but Machek and Anzhey Remembers his comrades, burning glasses with vodka, and Christine Machek, reciting poems on the tomb in the tumbledown church, killing Pikes when Helmitsky compresses old man killed in the arms and after shots Graham celebratory fireworks, white sheets, which is the blood Macheka, displaying the colors of the flag when it falls on the scrap-heap agonizing under the sounds of Oginski's polonez, which carries away its Cristina another man ... Sorry, that so much and confused, but on the other, I talk about this film can not, so much he means to me. If you still doubt - to watch or not - brush them: no see, not paying attention to the year of issue, so show your friends. Because it's a REAL MOVIE, but that is now in theaters, that spinning on the box that receives the Oscar - Household soap and odnodnevka (film that you'll forget right after watching it). But this - movies with a capital letter.

The post-war years were a difficult time for much of Eastern Europe, and ended with that region being plunged into dictatorship; so in many ways, it's surprising to see a film about that era (made under the communists) whose heroes are a pair of anti-communist assassins. One might more accurately say "anti-heroes", but the truth is, Andrzej Wajda's film is a critically sympathetic account of the motives on those on all sides in the conflict. Also marking this film out as modern is the dry script and mordant humour; while a big improvement over Wajda's previous movie, 'Kanal' (which had a horrible score) is the clever use of background music as orchestration. Some things do remind you that this film is (by now) almost fifty years old: not all the acting reaches contemporary standards. Still, it's as good a movie as was made in the 1950s, and all the more telling for its relative proximity to the events it displays.