Ashes and Embers
Ashes and Embers is a 1982 drama film directed by Haile Gerima and starring John Anderson.
Mark Lewis (filmmaker)
Mark Lewis( born 1958 in Mullumbimby, Australia) is an Australian documentary film and television producer, director and writer.
He is famous for his film and for his body of work on animals.
Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with.
His films have earned him many awards, including a British Academy Award nomination, a nomination from the Directors Guild of America, two Emmy ’s for Outstanding Direction in documentary film, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Science Program on American Television.
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director.
He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Witold Wajda
( 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director.
Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d' Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the" Polish Film School".
He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of" A Generation"( 1954)," Kanał"( 1956) and" Ashes and Diamonds"( 1958).
He is considered one of the world's most renowned filmmakers whose works chronicled his native country's political and social evolution and dealt with the myths of Polish national identity offering insightful analyses of the universal element of the Polish experience- the struggle to maintain dignity under the most trying circumstances.
Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:" The Promised Land"( 1975)," The Maids of Wilko"( 1979)," Man of Iron"( 1981) and" Katyń"( 2007).
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski( 19 August 1909 – 19 April 1983) was a prolific Polish author.
His novels," Ashes and Diamonds"( about the immediate post- war situation in Poland), and" Holy Week"( treating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar- winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.
" Holy Week" and" Ashes and Diamonds" have both been translated into English.
His novel" The Gates of Paradise" was translated into English by James Kirkup and published by Panther Books with the anglicised spelling" George Andrzeyevski".
A Generation
A Generation is a 1955 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
It is based on the novel" Pokolenie" by Bohdan Czeszko, who also wrote the script.
It was Wajda's first film and the opening installment of what became his Three War Films trilogy set in the Second World War, to be followed by" Kanal" and" Ashes and Diamonds".
Tom Walls
Thomas Kirby Walls( 18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949), known as Tom Walls, was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s.
Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End.
He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men.
In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson.
They had an early success in the West End with a long- running farce," Tons of Money", after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade.
He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time.
In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949.
Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially- written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
Away from acting, Walls's passion was horse racing.
He set up stables at his home in Surrey and trained about 150 winners, including April the Fifth, his 1932 Derby winner.
Old Iron
Old Iron is a 1938 British drama film directed by Tom Walls and starring Richard Ainley, Henry Hewitt, Eva Moore and Cecil Parker.
It was made at Shepperton Studios.
Ashes and Diamonds (film)
Ashes and Diamonds( Polish: Popiół i diament) is a 1958 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski.
Starring Zbigniew Cybulski and Ewa Krzyżewska, it completed Wajda's war films trilogy, following" A Generation"( 1954) and" Kanal"( 1956).
The action of" Ashes and Diamonds" takes place in 1945, shortly after World War II.
The main protagonist of the film, former Home Army soldier Maciek Chełmicki, is acting in the anti-Communist underground.
Maciek receives an order to kill Szczuka, the local secretary of the Polish Workers' Party.
Over time, Chełmicki increasingly doubts if his task is worth doing.
" Ashes and Diamonds", although based on the novel which directly supported the postwar Communist system in Poland, was subtly modified in comparison with the source material.
Wajda sympathized with the soldiers of the Polish independence underground; thus, he devoted most of the attention to Chełmicki.
During the three- month development of" Ashes and Diamonds", the director made drastic changes to the baseline scenario, thanks to his assistant director Janusz Morgenstern, as well as Cybulski, who played the leading role.
The film received permission from the authorities to be distributed only through Andrzejewski's intercession.
The film did not receive permission to be screened at the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
However," Ashes and Diamonds" appeared at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI award.
At first," Ashes and Diamonds" met positive critical reception, both in Poland and worldwide.
However, after the Revolutions of 1989, it was criticized for falsifying the collective memory of Polish partisans.
Nevertheless, the film maintained the reputation of one of the most famous Polish motion pictures in history.
Blood and Diamonds
Blood and Diamonds is a 1978 Italian crime film directed by Fernando di Leo.

Question: Do both Ashes And Diamonds (Film) and Old Iron films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no