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You can watch Ashes and Diamonds (1958) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
A young soldier finds himself caught between a fatal political assignment and a sudden, inconvenient spark of humanity. This noir-soaked portrait of post-war Poland captures the agonizing friction between duty and the desperate desire to simply live.
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Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanisław Milski, Artur Młodnicki, Halina Kwiatkowska, Ignacy Machowski
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Ashes and Diamonds
You can watch Ashes and Diamonds (1958) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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Director
Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanisław Milski, Artur Młodnicki, Halina Kwiatkowska, Ignacy Machowski
2 options ranked by value · 🇺🇸 United States
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Ashes and Diamonds is streaming on Max. Watch Ashes and Diamonds on Kanopy with a participating library card. We have not verified a current option on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+. Availability last verified October 15, 2026.