Ashes and Diamonds

Russian troops rolling into Poland as World War II ends, Home Army partisans "the major" (Ignacy Machowski) and his lieutenant Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski) review their accidental assassination of a worker, in director Andrzej Wajda's final feature in his acclaimed war trilogy, Ashes And Diamonds, 1958.

Opening scene, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) asking fellow Polish Home Army resistance fighter Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski) who it is they're assassinating, on the day of Germany's surrender, introducing the complex political currents in director Andrzej Wajda's Ashes And Diamonds, 1958.

V-E Day in a small Polish city, double dealing Drewnowski (Bogumil Kobiela) finds Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski) and Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who think they've just killed the incoming Soviet puppet commissar, in Andrzej Wajda's Ashes And Diamonds, 1958.

On the day of Germany's World War II surrender, Polish Home Army resistance fighters Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) and Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski) meet bar-maid Krystyna (Ewa Krzyzewska) and contemplate the future, in Andrzej Wajda's Ashes And Diamonds, 1958.