Archive of films Cold War / Zimna wojna
The new picture by the director of the Academy Award-winning, black-and-white Ida was one of the most lauded competition entries at this year’s Cannes, with the award for Best Director confirming that claim. This enchanting story of fated love set in grey-tinged Poland (as well as in Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris) between 1949 in 1964 is both stirring and melancholy, as are the infectious tones of folk music and contemplative jazz that assume a special place in the film.
Synopsis
Zula and Wiktor meet in 1949. He’s a talented musician who’s putting together a folk music and dance ensemble; she’s a temperamental young woman with a flair for music who’s a perfect candidate for his troupe. Thus begins a gripping love story that rightfully won this year’s Best Director Award at Cannes. Consistent with their Oscar-winning Ida, Pawlikowski and director of photography Łukasz Żal work magic with black-and-white images that leave their mark on the viewer’s memory. Music is an equally central element of this compelling story of an impossible love – both the touchingly simple folk songs of the Polish countryside and the melancholy jazz standards played in smoke-filled Parisian flats full of debating intellectuals.
Lenka Tyrpáková
About the director
Pawel Pawlikowski (b. 1957, Warsaw). Selected filmography: From Moscow to Pietushki (1991, medium-length doc.), Dostoevsky’s Travels (1991, medium-length doc.), Serbian Epics (1992, medium-length doc.), Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995, medium-length doc.), Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004), The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème 2011), Ida (2013), Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018)
Contacts
mk2 Films
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France
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Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
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About the film
Black & white, DCP
Section: | Horizons |
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Director: | Paweł Pawlikowski |
Screenplay: | Paweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Głowacki |
Dir. of Photography: | Łukasz Żal |
Editor: | Jarosław Kamiński |
Art Director: | Katarzyna Sobańska, Marcel Sławiński |
Producer: | Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska |
Production: | Opus Film, Apocalypso Pictures, MK2 Productions |
Cast: | Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc |
Sales: | mk2 Films |
Distributor: | Aerofilms |
Guests
Ivo Andrle
Distributor
Ewa Puszczynska
Producer