This month's movie is: "Ashes and Diamonds". It is available on Kanopy through Calvert Library. Watch the movie prior to the event and join us for a lively discussion on Monday night on Zoom or in person. Please register to receive an emailed link to the Zoom event an hour before it begins.
What does it mean to fight for your country? Who decides the history of your country? And what does it mean to even be a country at all? For over 100 years from the late 1700's to the early 1900's, Poland had no official sovereignty over her own land, and then following many violent years towards independence, Poland comes out of World War II as a fully fledged country. But again, what does that even mean?
This is the setting and circumstance of Polish legend Andrzej Wajda's film "Ashes and Diamonds." Opening on the last day of World War II in a small town somewhere in Poland, we follow Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki, played excellently by Zbigniew Cybulski, a man who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar, but of course nothing goes as planned. Gorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed, "Ashes and Diamonds" masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man, resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time. (Description edited partially from Kanopy)
Watch it here: https://www.kanopy.com/en/calvert/video/113215
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