Ashes and Diamonds

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Set on the first Day of peace after the end of World War 2, this film is a bitter portrait of the "lost generation" of young men who served in the underground resistance and who cannot reconcile themselves to the post-war communist reality. In creating the main role of Maciek, a disillusioned resistance fighter assigned to assassinate Szcuka, a leading communist official, Zbigniew Cybulski bacame a symbol for his generation - a Polish James Dean.
Andrzeij Wajdas genius is immediately evident from the films opening ambush sequence, where Maciek and his compatriot mistake as their target one of two men returning from a labour camp and defines the moral and metaphysical dilemma confronting the Poles as they embrace the internecine struggle to shape their nations future.
A film of great power, Ashes and Diamonds is the last of the separate and self-contained stories that make up his war trilogy, preceded in 1954 by "A Generation" and in 1957 by "Kanal".

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