Virtual Friday Night Films at the Wende: Cold War

This week’s selection was made by Shawne, the Wende Museum’s Collections Department intern:

Cold War (2018), directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, beautifully portrays the fatefully doomed romance of Zula (Joanna Kulig), an aspiring singer, and Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a music director, framed by Cold War-era Poland. Captured in stunning black and white by Polish cinematographer Łukasz Żal, the film follows Zula and Wiktor from the late 1940s to the early 1960s as they lose and re-find each other while crossing state borders, romantic borders, and the borders created by their own temperaments. I chose Cold War for this week’s Virtual Friday Night Film because the timelessness of sustaining love through the barriers of a world we can’t control makes this both a sentimental and bittersweet romantic drama.

Cold War can be seen on Amazon Prime with a Prime membership.

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Virtual Film Picks are inspired by the in-person Friday Night Films at the Wende program series. This selection is part of a curated list of weekly movie suggestions that can be watched at home, in conjunction with #WendeOnline.