Cold War

  • 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.