Cold War

Name: Cold War
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 9.1
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn

2018

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9.1

Title: Cold War

Original Title: Zimna wojna

Year: 2018

Info

Country: Poland UK
Language: Polish French
Length: 89 Minutes (1 hour 29 min)
Budget: €4,300,000
Genre: Drama Romance Music
Studios: Opus Films MK2 Productions
Distributor: Caramel Films
Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

UK: August 31 2018
United States: December 21 2018

Vídeos eCartelera

Joseph Quinn y Ebon Moss-Bachrach profundizan en sus personajes y el futuro de 'Los 4 Fantásticos'

Plot

The next project by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, 'Cold War', will be present at the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. The filmmaker, who was already awarded in 2015 with an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film for his feature film 'Ida', presents a love story set in the fifties with the Cold War as its background. In the film, two people of completely different origins and characters fall in love in a complicated time and despite oftheir differences, they seem destined to meet again and again.

The 'Cold War' cast is formed by Joanna Kulig ('The innocents', 'Ida'), Tomasz Kot ('Gods') and Agata Kulesza ('Ida'), and is located between Poland, Berlin, Paris and Yugoslavia.

Awards

2019 Academy Awards (Oscars): 3 0
2019 BAFTA Awards: 4 0
2019 Goya Awards: 1 1

Cast

Director:

Pawel Pawlikowski Pawel Pawlikowski

Zula

Wiktor

Kaczmarek

Irena

Michel

Juliette

Consul

Videos

1:55

'Cold War' trailer

August 29 2018

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Trivia

Inspired by real events

The turbulent relationship between the main characters was inspired by the director's real-life parents, who did break up and get together a couple of times as well as moved from one country to another.

Standing ovation

'Cold War' received standing ovation of 18 minutes at Cannes Film Festival.

Polish film

The first Polish-language movie since 1990 to be shown in the Cannes Film Festival competition. Although there were entries from Polish directors Krzysztof Kieslowski and Roman Polanski during that time, they were made in French and English as co-productions.