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)Plots(1)
This sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a performance for the ages). Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains—universes bridged by their passion for music and for each other. Photographed in luscious monochrome and suffused with the melancholy of the simple folk song that provides a motif for the couple’s fateful affair, Paweł Pawlikowski’s timeless story—inspired by that of his own parents—is a heart-stoppingly grand vision of star-crossed love caught up in the tide of history. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Joanna Kulig](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/145/164145904_3d2968.png)
Joanna Kulig
Poland
Best movies:
Clergy (2018)
Cold War (2018)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
![Tomasz Kot](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/830/158830260_090e15.jpg)
Tomasz Kot
Poland
Best movies:
Najlepszy (2017)
Leave No Traces (2021)
Gods (2014)
![Borys Szyc](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/288/165288172_986dcc.png)
Borys Szyc
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
The Welts (2004)
Cold War (2018)
![Agata Kulesza](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/809/158809583_804e29.jpg)
Agata Kulesza
Poland
Best movies:
25 Years of Innocence (2020)
The Hater (2020)
The Wedding Day (2021)
![Cédric Kahn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/019/158019420_eb9adc.jpg)
Cédric Kahn
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Cold War (2018)
After Love (2016)
![Jeanne Balibar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/442/162442376_3e42a5.png)
Jeanne Balibar
France
Best movies:
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Cold War (2018)
Who Knows (2001)
![Adam Woronowicz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/349/164349676_7f1037.png)
Adam Woronowicz
Poland
Best movies:
How I Became a Gangster. True Story (2019)
Generał Nil (2009)
Najlepszy (2017)
![Adam Ferency](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/404/164404784_7e526c.png)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/184/158184205_1961d0.jpg)
Slavko Sobin
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The High Sun (2015)
Papillon (2017)
Aloïse Sauvage
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Specials (2019)
BPM (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)