Ashes & Diamonds - Definite Meetup!!!

This is now a definite meetup

On 18th June - 6.20 PM
From 18th June - 18th June
Starring:
Zbigniew Cybulski, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
104mins
PL
1958
Synopsis: (HPPH Website)

We’re kicking off Scorsese’s Masterpieces of Polish Cinema season with ASHES AND DIAMONDS, a film that affected Scorsese so deeply he paid small homage to it by giving Charlie a pair of similar sunglasses in MEAN STREETS.

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Long established as one of Polish cinema's supreme masterpieces, Wajda's film vividly captures the turbulence and confusion immediately following the Second World War, as a former resistance hero turns anti-Communist assassin. Audiences were supposed to empathise with his intended victim, but Zbigniew Cybulski (dubbed the 'Polish James Dean') gave such a charismatic performance as the conflicted killer it seemed to crystallise the fears and uncertainties of a generation.