Andrej Wajda's film is highly regarded as a film classic from Poland. While well directed it seems a little less when I watched it.
The basic story is about the last day of World War II in Poland. The communists are getting ready to take over the government but there is a resistance movement with a plan to assassinate one of the leaders by Maciek a young resistance leader who is starting to have doubts about his role.
The film is well directed by Wajda but seems a little stuffy. Probably having to film it under the watch of the communist controlled Polish government may have cramped his ability to carefully examine the political situation in Poland.
Ashes and Diamonds has as it's lead an extremely charismatic leading actor Zbigniew Cybulski. The guy is a serious bad ass whether he is shooting up commies with a machine gun or sweet talking the hot little Polish blonde bartender into bed for a one night stand. Cybulski is the major reason to watch this dated film.
110 minutes.
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