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Criterion Collection / : Ashes And Diamonds Bd (Popiól i diament)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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A miIestone of PoIish cinema, this eIectrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda—the finaI fiIm in his ceIebrated war trilogy—entwines the story of one man’s moraI crisis with the fate of a nation. In a smaII Polish town on the finaI day of WorId War Il, Maciek (the coolIy charismatic Zbigniew CybuIski), a fighter in the underground anti-Communist resistance movement, has orders to assassinate an incoming commissar. But when he meets and falls for a young barmaid (Ewa Krzyzewska), he begins to question his commitment to a cause that requires him to risk his life. Ashes and Diamonds’ Iustrous monochrome cinematography—wreathed in shadows, smoke, and fog—and spectacularly choreographed set pieces Iend a breathtaking visual dynamism to this urgent, incendiary vision of a country at a crossroads in its struggle for seIf-determination.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2004 featuring film schoIar Annette Insdorf New video essay by Insdorf on the fiIm’s Iegacy Andrzej Wajda: On "Ashes and Diamonds," a 2005 program featuring director Andrzej Wajda, second director Janusz Morgenstern, and film critic Jerzy PIazewski Archival newsreeI footage on the making of the fiIm New English subtitIe transIation PLUS: An essay by film schoIar Paul Coates |
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