Popiół i diament = Ashes and diamonds / zespół autorów filmowych KADR przedstawia ; scenariusz na motywach powieści, Jerzego Andrzejewskiego ; [screenplay by], Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda ; kierownictwo produkcji [produced by], Stanisław Adler ; reżyseria [directed by], Andrzej Wajda.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanisław Milski, Artur Młodnicki, Halina Kwiatkowska, Ignacy Machowski, Zbigniew Skowroński, Barbara Kraftówna, Aleksander Sewruk, Adolf Chronicki. Based on the novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features: audio commentary from 2004 featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf; new video essay by Insdorf on the film's legacy; Andrzej Wajda: On "Ashes and diamonds", a 2005 program featuring director Andrzej Wajda, second director Janusz Morgenstern, and film critic Jerzy Plazewski; archival newsreel footage on the making of the film.
Summary:
A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda, the final film in his celebrated war trilogy, entwines the story of one man's moral crisis on the final day of World War II with the fate of a nation.
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