Ashes and Diamonds

“Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers”

Maciek Chełmicki (Zbigniew Cybulski), a young soldier in the Polish resistance, is ordered to shoot a Communist Party official in a town in the last days of the war in 1945, and the wrong man dies. Andrzej Wajda sends him to the Monopol hotel, where he waits out the second attempt and meets Krystyna (Ewa Krzyżewska), who works the bar. Over one night she gives him a reason to doubt his orders, and he has to decide whether she is enough to keep him from the gun.