Cold War

Stunning cinematography and striking music highlight Pawe? Pawlikowski's captivating, critically acclaimed, factually inspired, well-acted, black-and-white, 85-minute, 2018, historical film about the erratic love story of a musical conductor (Tomasz Kot) who falls in love with a beautiful, peasant, ingénue, Polish singer (Joanna Kulig) as he tries to form a folk singing and dancing ensemble along with a musicologist producer (Agata Kulesza) at a music school in Warsaw against the backdrop of Communist Poland in 1949 and when the folk troupe becomes more of a political, propaganda tool with the direction of the administrative manager (Borys Szyc), the couple makes plans to escape to West Berlin, but when she fails to show up at the rendezvous site, their tumultuous relationship becomes an off-and-on-again affair as they meet in Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany, and France until 1964.
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