Director
Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Run Time
89 mins
Release Year
2018
Country of Origin
PolandUKFrance
Certificate
15
Language
Polish and French with English subtitles
Format
Digital
Director of Photography: Łukasz Żal PSC
Exec Producer: Nathanaël Karmitz, Lizzie Francke, Rohit Khattar, John Woodward, Jeremy Gawade and Daniel Battsek
Editor: Jarosław Kamiński PSM
Produced by: Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska
Music: Marcin Masecki
Script Writer: Paweł Pawlikowski
Screenplay by: Paweł Pawlikowski and Janusz Głowacki with the collaboration of Piotr Borkowski
Production Designer: Katarzyna Sobańska and Marcel Sławiński
Sound Production: Maciej Pawłowski, Mirosław Makowski
Cold War
Part of the European Perspectives Strand
Pawel Pawlikowski, the director of the Oscar-winning Ida, returns with 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. Cold War is dedicated to Pawel Pawlikowski’s parents, whose names the protagonists share. The real Wiktor and Zula died in 1989, just before the Berlin Wall came down.