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Ashes and diamonds [videorecording (DVD)].

Criterion Collection, c2005.

Komunistyczna Partia Polski -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories -- Drama.

Poland -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Drama.

Criterion collection 282

Criterion collection 285

0780029518 (Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films set)

Alternate title:

Ashes + diamonds [videorecording (DVD)]

Popiół i diament [videorecording (DVD)]

Andrzej Wajda [videorecording (DVD)] : three war films. Ashes and diamonds

Three war films. Ashes and diamonds [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (103 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + booklet ([13] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).

Based on the novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary by Annette Insdorf ; Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and diamonds, a 34-minute exclusive new interview with the director,.second director Janusz Morgenstern, and film critic Jerzy Plazewski ; vintage newsreel footage on the making of Ashes and diamonds ; production photos, publicity stills, and posters ; plus, a new essay by film scholar Paul Coates.

1.66:1 aspect ratio. Enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.

Originally issued as part of a 3 film set: Andrzej Wajda: Three war films (The Criterion collection ; 282). Look for other 2 titles "Kanal" and "A generation".

In Polish with optional English subtitles.

Director, Andrzej Wajda ; screenplay, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda.

Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumiil Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanislaw Milski, Artur Mlodnicki, Halina Kwiatkowska, Ignacy Machowski, Zbigniew Skowronski, Barbara Krafftowna, Aleksander Sewruck and Adolf Chronicki.

"On the last day of World War II in a small town somewhere in Poland, the exiles of war and the occupying Soviet elite confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. From this incendiary environment emerges Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki. Chelmicki has now been hired to assassinate an incoming commissar, but a mistake stalls his progress and introduces him to Krystyna, a beautiful barmaid who gives him a glimpse of what his life could be. Gorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed, Ashes and Diamonds masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man, resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time."--Container.

Political films.

Andrzejewski, Jerzy, 1909-1983. Popiół i diament. English.

Wajda, Andrzej, 1926-

Cybulski, Zbigniew, 1927-1967.

Krzyzewski, Eva.

Zastrzeżyṅski, Wacław.

Paulikowski, Adam, 1925-1976.

Kobiela, Bogumił, 1932-1969.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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