Cold War

Zimna Wojna

  DRAMA

Cold War  is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully 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.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Pawel Pawlikowski
Script: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki
Actors: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 85΄

Are you an English speaker-cinema lover living or visiting Thessaloniki?

Then we are happy to welcome you in our theatres, to watch the best films of the season in our Saturday English-subbed screenings.

This week, enjoy the film Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski. 

See you this Saturday, October 20th, 20:00, at the Olympion theatre (Aristotelous square)!

Pawel Pawlikowski

He was born in Warsaw. He studied Literature and Philosophy at London and Oxford and started making films in the mid 1980s. Ηis early work was in documentaries for the BBC. In 1998, he moved into fiction with the small budget made-for-TV film Twockers, which he co-wrote and directed with Ian Duncan. This was followed by two full length features, Last Resort and My Summer of Love, both of which he wrote and directed and which both won BAFTAs, as well as other awards at festivals around the world. Last Resort won the Golden Alexander at the 41st Thessaloniki IFF in 2000.

Filmography

(Selected)
1991 From Moscow to Pietushki (doc)
1995 Tripping with Zhirinovsky (doc)
2000 Last Resort
2004 My Summer of Love
2011 La femme duVeme/TheWoman in the Fifth
2013 Ida