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Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popiół i diament) is a 1958 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. Starring Zbigniew Cybulski and Ewa Krzyżewska, it completed Wajda's war films trilogy, following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956).
May 26, 2024 · Ashes and Diamonds is a MASTERPIECE, not only of Polish but also of world cinema. What electrifies when reading reviews, writes Krzysztof Kornacki, is the courage and frequency with which authors use terms like “masterpiece,” “genius,” “outstanding,” “excellent,” “groundbreaking”; sometimes right in the title, which – in ...
Aug 24, 2021 · A ndrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (1958) has rightly been lauded as one of the finest of postwar East-Central European films, and the most vital work of the Polish School, the group of filmmakers who, starting in the midfifties, cast startlingly truthful images of the recent war and its aftermath, putting Polish cinema on the world map.
Mar 20, 2023 · Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (‘Popiol i diament’, 1955) is considered as one of the most important Polish films of all time. Championed by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, this film based on Jerzy Andrzejewski’s 1948 novel was considered to be the third installment of Wajda’s thematically linked ‘War trilogy’, which ...
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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 with the fate of a nation. In a small Polish town on the final day of World War II, Maciek (the coolly charismatic Zbigniew Cybulski), a fighter in the underground anti-Co...
The Criterion Collection upgrades their DVD edition (available exclusively in theThree War Films box set) of Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamondsto Blu-ray, presenting the film on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from a new 4K restoration, scanned from the 35mm composite ...
The film’s Polish soundtrack is delivered in lossless single-channel PCM. There’s a nice level of fidelity and range, with dialogue sounding clean and the ocarina soundtrack coming off sharp without getting harsh. There can be slight edge to some louder moments but the audio sounds clean otherwise.
Outside of a photo gallery Criterion ports everything over from their previous DVD edition for the film. Annette Insdorf’s 2004 audio commentary yet again starts things off, the academic focusing on the film's technical attributes. She spends a lot of time talking about the framing, the use of depth, and the low angle shots throughout, comparing th...
A wonderful upgrade that ports most of the material over from Criterion’s previous DVD and delivers a sharper, cleaner image. Well worth picking up even if you own the previous DVD box set. BUY AT:
May 21, 2020 · This 1958 film, directed by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, is based on a novel from 1948 written by Jerzy Andrzejewski. It follows the story of Maciek, who is a young resistance fighter, ordered to kill the Communist leader, Szczuka, in the final days of WWII.
Dec 14, 2012 · Based on Jerzy Andrzejewski’s novel of the same name, “Ashes and Diamonds” owes its existence to the post-1956 political thaw that transformed Polish culture into some semblance of normalcy after the period of Stalinist terror and censorship.
