A sub-titled version of the Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
(First transmission on Jan. 25, 1963)

Tonight's film presentation Ashes and Diamonds is the third and last of the films made by Andrzej Wajda to chronicle the history of the Polish Resistance in the last war. The Germans have been driven out, but enmities and conflicting loyalties remain. Many of the former freedom fighters regard the government-in-exile in London as the legitimate authority for their country, and continue to accept its orders. Others look to the Russian-backed 'Lublin Committee,' and welcome a Communist government.
Andrzej, Maciek, and Drewnowski are three Resistance men who belong to the former faction. Andrzej is the leader, and he has orders from London to assassinate the Communist District Secretary who has just arrived on the scene. But Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is tired of killing, particularly when the new war is beginning to set Pole against Pole; furthermore he sees a chance of settling into a peaceful life with the girl he loves.
Inevitably the film's argument is weighted on the Communist side, but it is still a sensitive evocation of an unhappily divided society.

Ashes and Diamonds is at 7.50