Ashes and Diamonds
1958
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1h 42min
• Drama, Romance, War
Wajda's best known work, the final film of his acclaimed, unofficial 'War Trilogy', stars Zbigniew Cybulski (simplistically dubbed Poland's James Dean) as a former resistance fighter at the end of World War II. A botched assassination attempt makes him realise that the old certainties no longer apply, and the ensuing moral convolutions turned him into one of Poland's great tragic heroes.
