Poland/France/UK
COLD WAR
89 MIN
2018
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
Cast & Crew
Producers: Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczynska
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Script: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Piotr Borkowski
Director of Photography: Lukasz Zal
Production Design: Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska-Strzalkowska
Sound: Maciej Pawlowski, Miroslaw Makowski
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar.
Production Companies: Opus Film, Polish Film Institute, MK2 Films, Film4, BFI
Awards
Best Director, Cannes IFF, 2018
Cast & Crew
Producers: Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczynska
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Script: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Piotr Borkowski
Director of Photography: Lukasz Zal
Production Design: Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska-Strzalkowska
Sound: Maciej Pawlowski, Miroslaw Makowski
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar.
Production Companies: Opus Film, Polish Film Institute, MK2 Films, Film4, BFI
Awards
Best Director, Cannes IFF, 2018
Pawel Pawlikowski
Filmmaker and academic. Born in Warsaw, Pawlikowski left Poland at 14. Lived in London, Germany and Italy, studied literature and philosophy at London and Oxford, making films since 1987. His filmography includes over dozen films. Among his awards are the European Film Academy Special mention (Dostoevsky’s Travels, 1991); Gran Prix, Documentary FF Marseille and Gran Prix, Festival dei Popoli, Florence (Serbian Epics, 1992); Grierson Award, Best British Documentary, 1995 and Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival (Tripping with Zhirinovsky, 1995); BAFTA Best Newcomer, 2001; Best Film Edinburgh FF, Best Film Thessaloniki FF, Best Film Gijon FF (Last Resort, 2000); Best Film Edinburgh FF, 2004, Best Screenplay Evening Standard Awards, 2005; BAFTA Best British Film 2005; Best Director Directors’ Guild of Great Britain, 2005 (My Summer of Love, 2004). Pawlikowski’s retrospectives have been held in San Francisco, 1995, La Rochelle, 2005, Bradford, 2005, Buenos Aires, 2007, Gijon, 2007, and London Riverside, 2008.
In 2015 his masterpiece Ida, won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Polish film to do so. His most recent film, Cold War, earned him the Best Director Prize at the Festival de Cannes 2018 and three nominations for Best Director, Best Photography and Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. It also won five awards at the 2018 European Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.
Filmography
Open Space (1987, TV Series, doc., 1 ep.), From Moscow to Pietushki (1990, TV doc.,), Dostoevsky's Travels (1991, TV doc.), Serbian Epics (1992, TV doc.), Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995, TV doc.), The Stringer (1998), Twockers (1998, TV short), Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Ida (2013), Cold War (2018), Muse (short, 2025), Fatherland (2026).
Filmmaker and academic. Born in Warsaw, Pawlikowski left Poland at 14. Lived in London, Germany and Italy, studied literature and philosophy at London and Oxford, making films since 1987. His filmography includes over dozen films. Among his awards are the European Film Academy Special mention (Dostoevsky’s Travels, 1991); Gran Prix, Documentary FF Marseille and Gran Prix, Festival dei Popoli, Florence (Serbian Epics, 1992); Grierson Award, Best British Documentary, 1995 and Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival (Tripping with Zhirinovsky, 1995); BAFTA Best Newcomer, 2001; Best Film Edinburgh FF, Best Film Thessaloniki FF, Best Film Gijon FF (Last Resort, 2000); Best Film Edinburgh FF, 2004, Best Screenplay Evening Standard Awards, 2005; BAFTA Best British Film 2005; Best Director Directors’ Guild of Great Britain, 2005 (My Summer of Love, 2004). Pawlikowski’s retrospectives have been held in San Francisco, 1995, La Rochelle, 2005, Bradford, 2005, Buenos Aires, 2007, Gijon, 2007, and London Riverside, 2008.
In 2015 his masterpiece Ida, won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Polish film to do so. His most recent film, Cold War, earned him the Best Director Prize at the Festival de Cannes 2018 and three nominations for Best Director, Best Photography and Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. It also won five awards at the 2018 European Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.
Filmography
Open Space (1987, TV Series, doc., 1 ep.), From Moscow to Pietushki (1990, TV doc.,), Dostoevsky's Travels (1991, TV doc.), Serbian Epics (1992, TV doc.), Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995, TV doc.), The Stringer (1998), Twockers (1998, TV short), Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Ida (2013), Cold War (2018), Muse (short, 2025), Fatherland (2026).
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