Directed by:
Paweł PawlikowskiCinematography:
Łukasz ŻalCast:
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Dražen Šivak, Slavko Sobin, Aloïse Sauvage (more)VOD (1)
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In the ruins of post-WWII Poland, pianist Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is commissioned by the Soviet state to form a musical ensemble to help rekindle national pride. Whilst touring the villages in search of talent he meets the beautiful Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a luminous star-making turn), a fiery and charismatic singer with a past, and the two fall passionately in love. When a performance in Berlin offers the pair an opportunity for escape to the West, a last-minute decision finds them stranded on either side of the Iron Curtain. As the years march on, Wiktor and Zula - whether through political circumstance or personal impetuosity - struggle to find their moment in time... Spanning 15 years across Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Yugoslavia, and inspired by the lives of the director’s own parents, Cold War meticulously recreates the era with virtuosic black-and-white cinematography, and an extraordinary soundtrack that is used judiciously to signify the passage of time and shifting relationships. Warmly lyrical, impossibly romantic and visually stunning, Cold War was one of the films of the year. (Palace Films)
(more)Cast
Joanna Kulig
Poland
Best movies:
Clergy (2018)
Cold War (2018)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
Tomasz Kot
Poland
Best movies:
Najlepszy (2017)
Leave No Traces (2021)
Gods (2014)
Borys Szyc
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
The Welts (2004)
Cold War (2018)
Agata Kulesza
Poland
Best movies:
25 Years of Innocence (2020)
The Hater (2020)
The Wedding Day (2021)
Cédric Kahn
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Cold War (2018)
After Love (2016)
Jeanne Balibar
France
Best movies:
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Cold War (2018)
Who Knows (2001)
Adam Woronowicz
Poland
Best movies:
How I Became a Gangster. True Story (2019)
Generał Nil (2009)
Najlepszy (2017)
Adam Ferency
Poland
Best movies:
Interrogation (1982)
Blind Chance (1981)
With Fire and Sword (1999)
Dražen Šivak
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Metastases (2009)
Slavko Sobin
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The High Sun (2015)
Papillon (2017)
Aloïse Sauvage
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Specials (2019)
120 Beats Per Minute (2017)
Adam Szyszkowski
Best movies:
The Last Family (2016)
Samowolka (1993) (TV movie)
Cold War (2018)
Anna Zagórska
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
Tomasz Markiewicz
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
Krzysztof Materna
Poland
Best movies:
The Dancing Hawk (1977)
Cold War (2018)
Złoto dezerterów (1998)
Giorgio Rayzacher
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
Aleksandra Yermak
Poland
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Legions (2019)
Madame Claude (2021)
Davina Reeves-Ciara
Best movies:
I Never Cry (2020)
Cold War (2018)
Mister T. (2019)
Martin Budny
Iraq
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Coldest Game (2019)
The Taming of the Shrewd (2022)