ASHES AND DIAMONDS Film Screening

Thursday 5. February at 18:00 - 19:50

FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi

Andrzej Wajda | 1958 | Poland | 1h43m | Polish language with English subtitles

ASHES AND DIAMONDS closes Wajda’s loose war trilogy with a film about victory that feels like mourning.

Shot in stark yet luminous B&W, with an outstanding cast including Zbigniew Cybulski, aka the Polish James Dean, it stands as a post-war classic from the Eastern European school of cinema and a must-see for any fan of political cinema and moral drama.

Wajda compresses history into a single, feverish day. The war is ending, but violence continues to negotiate the terms of peace. Victory feels unstable. Every character senses that a new order is arriving, and nobody agrees on what that order should look like.

The film follows a young resistance fighter assigned one final assassination just as the fighting officially stops. His duty collides with love, exhaustion, and the sudden possibility of an ordinary future. Wajda presents a nation caught in a doorway between fascism and socialism, unsure whether it is stepping toward freedom or another kind of confinement.

More than six decades later, ASHES AND DIAMONDS still burns with urgency. It is Polish New Wave at its most romantic, tragic, and politically sharp.

Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left behind the jewellery stand. One flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235

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