Pavel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other.

Set against the background of the Cold War in 50s and 60s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, Cold Waris shot in rich tones of black and white, and in “Academy format” (3:4), as was Pawlikowski’s previous film, Ida. It’s a tragic tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate – an impossible love story in impossible times.

A NewScreen coup: We screened Cold War, the day before it was released 🙂