Cold War

Cold War Is a Musicologist's Delight

Hollywood Reporter

Archive - Festival 34
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Poland, United Kingdom, France 2018
90 minutes
Polish, French
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Pawel Pawlikowski, winnter of the Best Director Award in Cannes, presents the passionate love story of Wiktor and Zula, who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other.

Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the couple are separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate – an impossible love story in impossible times.

Director Pawel Pawlikowski
Production Ewa Puszczyńska, Tanya Seghatchian
Script Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Piotr Borkowski
Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Editing Jarosław Kamiński
Festivals Cannes (Best Director Award), Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo, Toronto
Actors Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar
Source Lev Films and Cinemas Ltd.