"Cold War" is nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director (Pawel Pawlikowski) and Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zal).
"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 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate — an impossible love story in impossible times.
The film is dedicated to director Pawel Pawlikowski’s parents, whose names the protagonists share.