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Popiół y diament (Motion picture)

A Polish partisan is confused by the apparent need to continue killing after the war is over. A chilling account of the intellectual contradictions to which war leads.

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  • "Andrzej Wajda's ashes and diamonds"
  • "Ashes and diamonds"
  • "Popiól i diament"
  • "Popiol i diament"
  • "Popiol I Diament"
  • "Popiół i diament"
  • "Wajda trilogy"

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  • "On the first day of peace in a small Polish town, Maciek is ordered by a nationalist underground unit to assassinate the newly arrived Communist District Secretary. The assassin and his intended victim are both guests at the town's hotel where, in a microcosm of Polish society, political careerists and upstart power-brokers attend a celebratory banquet. Maciek becomes disillusioned and questions the righteousness of Pole killing Pole, but his superior forces him to complete his assignment. Wajda's film reflects the restlessness of postwar Polish youth in the fifties. (Circulates)."
  • "Story of a Polish Resistance fighter who assassinates the wrong man on the last day of World War II and finds himself living uncertainly, moving from echoing bars to seedy hotels rooms in the bitterness and disillusionment that follows destructive political fanaticism."
  • "A Polish partisan is confused by the apparent need to continue killing after the war is over. A chilling account of the intellectual contradictions to which war leads."@en
  • "Portrait d'une société communiste à travers l'histoire d'un résistant polonais qui assassine la mauvaise personne à la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale."
  • "This film is set in the last days of WWII. For Poland, this has meant that the German occupation was over and the Russian Communist influence had not yet asserted itself. It is a country in transformation. The people have been uprooted by the war and the country has not yet decided which political direction it will follow. This anchorless society is the backdrop for a morally ambiguous story. Poland was in transition, and from that chaotic center the changing emotions and loyalties of the central character Zbigniew Cybulski, who has been hailed as the Polish James Dean."@en
  • "Portrait of a Polish nationalist assassin at loose ends after World War II."
  • ""En 1945, la Pologne est dechirée par les luttes impitoyables qui opposent partisans des allemands et des soviétiques. Un jeune homme chargé de tuer un dirigeant communiste, prend peu à peu conscience des horreurs de la guerre."--Site Allocine.fr, consulté le 18 mars 2015."
  • "SUMMARY: "Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II. Though killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow his orders." IMDB"
  • "Portrait of a young Polish nationalist assassin who, when World War II ends, finds himself living uncertainly, moving from echoing bars to seedy hotel rooms, finding comfort in a girl and crazy jokes."@en
  • "Portrait of a young Polish nationalist assassin who, when World War II ends, finds himself living uncertainly, moving from echoing bars to seedy hotel rooms, finding comfort in a girl and crazy jokes."
  • "At the end of World War II a young Polish nationalist assassin finds himself living uncertainly, moving from echoing bars to seedy hotel rooms, and finding comfort in a girl and crazy jokes."
  • "Rural Poland, on the last days of World War II. The Nazis have surrendered, and the Red Army has criss-crossed the country. With the battle against the Nazis over, a new struggle emerges against the communists. A group of Polish patriots boldy set out to assassinate a mid-level communist-party functionary. Macick is the trigger man, but when he spots a blonde behind the bar, his priorities change."
  • "Rural Poland, on the last days of World War II. The Nazis have surrendered, and the Red Army has criss-crossed the country. With the battle against the Nazis over, a new struggle emerges against the communists. A group of Polish patriots boldy set out to assassinate a mid-level communist-party functionary. Macick is the trigger man, but when he spots a blonde behind the bar, his priorities change."@en
  • "Violent story of political conflicts in Poland at the end of world War II, reflected in th story of a hired assassin."
  • "The conflict between idealism and instinct is revealed in this story of a Polish Resistance fighter who assassinates the wrong man on the last day of World War II. This testament to the destructiveness of political fanaticism by made by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, based on a novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. Dubbed English version."@en
  • "On the last day of World War II, a Polish Resistance fighter assassinates the wrong man in this story of "the conflict between idealism and instinct," considered by many critics to be the most perceptive portrayal of Communist society and the Polish Resistance Movement ever produced. Winner of the Venice Film Festival 1959: International Film Critics Award; British Film Critics Guild Award: Best Foreign Film. Part of the "Janus Collection." Polish, with English subtitles."@en
  • ""On May 7, 1945, V-E Day, Andrzej and Maciek, two resistance fighters in a small Polish town, receive orders from their headquarters in London to assassinate the newly arrived Communist Party secretary, Szczuka. They mistakenly shoot down two innocent workmen, and young Maciek, deeply affected by this needless waste of life, balks at the thought of carrying out his assignment. Despite years of following orders without question, he cannot bring himself to celebrate this first day of peace with the prospect of yet another killing, especially since Szczuka seems to him to be a harmless man. That night Maciek attends a victory banquet, and is strongly attracted to a young barmaid, Christine. After spending the night with her, he decides he is through with killing and will enter a university. Humiliated by charges of desertion, however, he is once more forced to stalk his prey. He kills Szczuka, but Maciek himself is wounded while trying to escape. He runs through the city and dies in agony on a rubbish heap"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970."

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  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Foreign language films"@en
  • "Features"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Longs métrages"
  • "Polish films"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Videotapes"
  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Drames (Films)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "War films"
  • "War films and programs"
  • "Videodiscs"
  • "Films de fiction"
  • "Feature : Foreign"
  • "Fiction films"@en

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  • "Ashes and Diamonds = Popiól i diament"
  • "Popiół i diament (film)"
  • "Popiół i diament"
  • "Ashes & diamonds"
  • "Popiół y diament (Motion picture)"
  • "Popiół y diament (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Popiół i diament (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Popiół i diament (Motion picture)"
  • "Ashes and diamonds"
  • "Ashes and diamonds"@en
  • "Popiól i diament"
  • "Popiól I diament"
  • "Ashes + diamonds"
  • "Ashes and diamonds = Popiól i diament"
  • "Popiol i diament"

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