Krystyna: Look. An old crypt. An inscription. "So often are you as a blazing torch with flames of burning hemp falling about you flaming, you know not if the flames bring freedom or death, consuming all that you most cherish. Will only ashes remain, and chaos whirling into the void." The letters are blurred. I can't read it.

Maciek Chelmicki: It's by Norwid. "Or will the ashes hold the glory of a starlike diamond, the Morning Star of everlasting triumph."

Krystyna: That's beautiful. "Or will the ashes hold the glory of a starlike diamond..." And what are we?

Maciek Chelmicki: You - are definitely a diamond.
Szczuka: I'd be a bad communist, comrades, if I were to reassure you like a bunch of naive kids. The end of the war isn't the end of our fight. The fight for Poland and what kind of country it's to become has only just begun. Today or tomorrow or the day after, any one of us could die.
Maciek Chelmicki: Warsaw girls. Makes me want to stay.
Waga: You're too experienced a soldier not to realize that as your superior officer I have the right to ignore that question.
Krystyna: In a hurry?

Maciek Chelmicki: No, I'm meeting someone.

Krystyna: A woman?

Maciek Chelmicki: Happy?

Krystyna: Who?

Maciek Chelmicki: You.

Krystyna: Me?
Maciek Chelmicki: No need to take things so seriously. The main thing is to find a way through this mess without being tricked or getting bored. What else is there?
Hanka Lewicka: [singing] Years will pass and ages will roll by, But traces of bygone days will remain, And all the poppies of Monte Cassino, Will be redder from growing in Polish blood.
Andrzej: Listen, I'm responsible to Florian.

Maciek Chelmicki: That's all right. I'm responsible to you. Everyone's got to be responsible to somebody.
Krystyna: Why do you always wear those dark glasses?

Maciek Chelmicki: A souvenir of unrequited love for my homeland.
Szczuka: [Franek holds out a handful of bullets, Szczuka examines one] German. Did you find them?

Franek Pawlicki: No, but we will. Some of these are English too. At close range, there's not the slightest difference.

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Mckenzie 2022-03-19 09:01:08

Vajdabikye has a mind, and Zibulski is like Luo Dayou. The shot under the fireworks is a great moment in movie history. A dance in the morning light, the remembrance of Warsaw and those young people who died, everyone is living in the wounds of history, it is too sad.
Kylie 2022-03-25 09:01:19

9.2/10. ① The multi-line cross-homicide of the rebel assassin Machik and his companions to assassinate the new regional secretary of the Workers' Party, Szuka, mainly focuses on the various undercurrents during the 24 hours when assassins, secretaries, democrats, and common people were in the hotel. and eventually erupted. ② After World War II was over but under the control of the Soviet Union, Poland did not know where to go, so the plot was filled with an atmosphere of confusion about this kind of cannibalism of compatriots, whether it was a murder that was close to Oedipus in the text (such as: Szuka escaped The son is a member of the resistance organization and is about the same age as Marchek; both Marchek and Szuka are of good character; after being murdered, Szuka is holding Marchek) or the broken ruins on the video and Jesus hanging upside down. The rendering and expression of this atmosphere. ③ Ashes are a bad environment, and diamonds are the sparkling love and humanity in the environment. ④ The depth of field shot of fireworks in the foreground of the assassination of Szuka in the background of the murder is very good, which contrasts with confusion. ⑤ High-level typical film noir low-key lighting and low-key photography. ⑥As a traditional melodrama, the narrative rhythm is too bland; the extensive use of depth-of-field lenses and elevation angles has little effect.