COLD WAR

Details

• Release Year: 2018
• Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
• Plot: This sweeping, delirious romance by Pawel Pawlikowski begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a performance for the ages). Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between the jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris, to which he escapes, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains—universes bridged by their passion for music and for each other. Photographed in luscious monochrome and suffused with the melancholy of the simple folk song that provides a motif for the couple’s fateful affair, Pawlikowski’s timeless story—inspired by that of his own parents—is a heart-stoppingly grand vision of star-crossed love caught up in the tide of history.
• Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Drazen Sivak, Slavko Sobin, Aloïse Sauvage, Adam Szyszkowski, Anna Zagórska, Tomasz Markiewicz, Izabela Andrzejak, Kamila Borowska, Katarzyna Ciemniejewska, Joanna Depczynska, Gracjana Graczyk, Dominika Ladziak, Martyna Mankowska, Zofia Nowak, Anna Pas, Patryk Jurczyk, Pawel Kasprzak, Piotr Kielbasa, Damian Kuznik, Damian Muszka, Mateusz Skladanowski, Dominik Skorek, Piotr Zalipski, Mateusz Zawada, Aleksandra Yermak, Giorgio Rayzacher, Krzysztof Materna, Martin Budny, Philip Lenkowsky, Vergil J. Smith, Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Piotr Borkowski
• Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Amazon Studios, Opus Film, Polish Film Institute, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie