Cold War

A passionate love story between 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.

Keywords

  • Cinéart: 50 Years of Great Cinema
  • David di Donatello
  • European Film Awards
  • Impossible Love
  • Jessica Woodworth’s favorite films
  • Cinema noir & blanc
  • Just released
  • Our Greatest Love Stories
  • Premios Goya
  • The Oscars
  • black and white
  • relationship
  • war

Actors

  • Aloïse Sauvage
  • Joanna Kulig
  • Jeanne Balibar
  • Adam Szyszkowski
  • Adam Ferency
  • Anna Zagórska
  • Borys Szyc
  • Adam Woronowicz
  • Agata Kulesza
  • Tomasz Kot
  • Cédric Kahn

Director

  • Pawel Pawlikowski

Drama


1h 28min


-12

PL


FR

NL

France
Poland
2018
Set in the Cold War in the 1950s, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

Set in the Cold War in the 1950s, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.


A passionate love story between 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.

Cast & Crew