Maciek a young Resistance fighter is ordered to kill Szczuka a Communist district leader on the last day of World War II.
On the last day of World War Two in a small town somewhere in Poland Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this incendiary environment we find Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar. But a mistake stalls his progress and leads 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. Arrow Academy presents Andrzej Wajda's masterpiece Ashes and Diamonds on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
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