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Ashes and Diamonds

film by Wajda

Also known as: “Popiół i diament”

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In Andrzej Wajda
…and Popiół i diament (1958; Ashes and Diamonds), constituted a popular trilogy that is considered to have launched the Polish film school. The movies deal in symbolic imagery with sweeping social and political changes in Poland during the World War II-era German occupation, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and the…
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