A passionate love story between a musical director and a young singer, two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other.
Set against the background of the cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.
“Cold War” (Polish: Zimna wojna) received the Golden Lions Award at the 43rd Gdynia Film Festival and won as Best Foreign Language Film of 2018 at the New York Film Critics Circle. It is also Poland’s entry at the 91st Academy Awards.
Pawlikowski won the award for Best Director at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for this masterpiece, which received 18 minutes of standing ovation at the festival.
- Starring : Joanna Kulig / Tomasz Kot / Agata Kulesza
- Genre : Drama / Music / Romance
- Country : Poland / France / United Kingdom
- Language : Polish / French / German / Russian / Italian / Croatian
- Director : Pawel Pawlikowski
- Production : Opus Film / Apocalypso Pictures / MK2 Productions / ARTE France
- Distributor : Amazon Studios / Anticipate Pictures / CDI Films / Cinéart
Cold War movie
Cold War release date
- June 11, 2018 : Australia (Sydney Film Festival)
- August 31, 2018 : USA (Telluride Film Festival)
- September 7, 2018 : Canada (Toronto International Film Festival)
- September 19, 2018 : Canada (Atlantic Film Festival)
- September 25, 2018 : USA (Aspen Film Festival)
- October 2, 2018 : Canada (Vancouver International Film Festival)
- October 5, 2018 : USA (Mill Valley Film Festival)
- October 7, 2018 : USA (New York Film Festival)
- October 13, 2018 : Australia (Adelaide Film Festival)
- October 17, 2018 : USA (Chicago International Film Festival)
- November 14, 2018 : USA (AFI Fest)
- November 23, 2018 : Canada (Ottawa European Union Film Festival)
- December 21, 2018 : USA
Cold War cast
- Joanna Kulig as Zula
- Tomasz Kot as Wiktor
- Borys Szyc as Kaczmarek
- Agata Kulesza as Irena
- Cédric Kahn as Michel
- Jeanne Balibar as Juliette
- Adam Woronowicz as Consul
- Adam Ferency as Minister
- Drazen Sivak as Sleuth 1
- Slavko Sobin as Sleuth 2
- Aloïse Sauvage as Waitress
- Adam Szyszkowski as Guard
- Anna Zagórska as Ania
- Tomasz Markiewicz as Leader of ZMP
- Izabela Andrzejak as Mazurek
