Cold War - The latitude of love

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Movie
German title Cold War - The latitude of love
Original title Zimna wojna
Country of production Poland , France , United Kingdom
original language Polish , German , French , Italian , Croatian , Russian
Publishing year 2018
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Paweł Pawlikowski
script Pawel Pawlikowski,
Janusz Głowacki
production Ewa Puszczynska,
Tanya Seghatchian
camera Łukasz Żal
cut Jarosław Kamiński
occupation

Cold War - The latitude of love (Original title: Zimna wojna ) is a romantic, musical film drama by Paweł Pawlikowski , which premiered in May 2018 as part of the international competition at the Cannes International Film Festival . In the film, a love story between the pianist Wiktor and the singer Zula, which begins in post-war Poland, is spanned over a period of almost 20 years.

As part of the 2019 Academy Awards , the film received a total of three nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film. The film received 13 nominations for the Polish Film Prize and was awarded in seven categories, including Joanna Kulig for her portrayal of Zula Lichon as best actress .

action

Four years after the end of the Second World War , the folklore ensemble Mazurek is founded in Poland by decision of the socialist government . It should be dedicated to the maintenance of Polish folk songs and dances and later perform with them at home and abroad. Wiktor and Irena, who are scheduled to be teachers and directors of the ensemble, travel across the country accompanied by their superior Kaczmarek to find songs and dances that are suitable for their future repertoire. They then select the most talented among the applicants - young people with a simple background. One of the candidates, Zula, electrified Wiktor from the first moment. Irena warns him about her; she killed her father and is only released on probation. When asked about this by Wiktor during a one-on-one lesson, Zula explains that she fought against an attempted abuse of her father with a knife, but that he survived. Later, when she and Wiktor are already a couple, more or less secretly, she confesses to him that she is spying on him on behalf of the school principal and party official Kaczmarek.

After two years of training, Mazurek has his first appearance in front of a large audience, including Poland's political celebrities. It will be a complete success. Kaczmarek is touched and thanks the teachers. Soon after, however, he fell in the back of Irena, who resisted the attempt to instrumentalize the ensemble: The party wanted the repertoire to be expanded to include propagandistic songs, such as songs in praise of Stalin. Viktor is silent and gives in. He is looking for another way out. In 1952 Mazurek appeared at the World Youth Games in East Berlin , and Wiktor persuaded Zula to take this opportunity to flee to the West with him. However, when she does not show up at the agreed meeting point, he sits down alone.

It was not until 1954 before the two met again in Paris , where Zula was touring with Mazurek . Wiktor established himself there as a pianist in a jazz band, for which he also composes and arranges. Both reassure each other that they are in a relationship, but it is obvious that their love for one another is still burning. When Viktor asked why she did not come with him, Zula explained that she believed she was not good enough for the West, and counters with the accusation that she did not flee alone. A year later, during a guest performance in Yugoslavia , she unexpectedly discovered Wiktor in the audience. However, the Polish secret service prevents the two from meeting.

Wiktor and Zula marry themselves in a ruined church. The scene was filmed in the village of Kniazie near Lubycza Królewska .

Another two years later, in 1957, Zula suddenly appears in the doorway of the studio in which Wiktor is recording film music. She married an Italian to come to Paris legally - and to live with Wiktor. With his help, she begins a promising career as a chanson singer. Accompanied by his band, she is now interpreting the old Polish folk songs that both of them know from their time with Mazurek - including the one about the "two hearts and four eyes who cannot find each other". That is not enough for Viktor. Zula is supposed to sing the songs in French too, but she blocks herself; she disapproves of the transmissions from the pen of his former lover, the poet Juliette. She calls the resulting record a "bastard". She also denies that Wiktor is trying to capitalize on her Polish past to give her a promotional image. When an argument between the two finally escalates, his hand slips. Zula returns to Poland without saying goodbye.

Viktor follows her; but as with his escape, he can only do this illegally. This and the accusation of espionage mean for him 15 years imprisonment, which he is serving in a prison camp . When Zula visits him there in 1959, she promises to wait for him and see to it that he is released earlier. After five years she actually succeeds, if only with the help of Kaczmarek, with whom she has a son. She is now a pop singer in an entertainment band and looks completely thrown off course. Desperate, she asks Wiktor to take her away from there. The two of them go to a dilapidated church and take a wedding vows. Then they take an overdose of tablets and wait together on a bench for their effects.

production

Staff and biography

Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

The director was Oscar winner Paweł Pawlikowski , who also wrote the script together with Janusz Głowacki . He dedicated the film to his parents, who have since passed away, and accompanied his main characters for 15 years. Hannah Lühmann from Welt Online explains that the director not only set a monument to them, but also composed the story of Wiktor and Zula around historical facts. This is how the Mazowsze Ensemble really existed. Pawlikowski himself emigrated to Great Britain with his mother at the age of 14, and it was not until the age of 55 that he made his first Polish film with Ida . The director told Zeit Online that he was working and living in Poland again because films were being discussed well in Great Britain, whereas art was once again of enormous importance in Poland.

In an interview with Susanne Burg from Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Pawlikowski explained: “All my life, I lived in the shadow of my parents and their complicated love story. They were wonderful people, but not good parents. [...] During her lifetime I found it just exhausting. But after they died in 1989 - just before the Wall came down and the Cold War ended - that all changed for me. I found them fascinating, two very strong personalities from very different families. Their relationship was bad, but also indestructible. That's the matrix for a love story. ”For a long time, however, he thought that he couldn't make a film about it because he found their relationship to be too destructive and chaotic because they separated too often and got back together again, what would have made no sense from a dramaturgical point of view, said Pawlikowski. Therefore, he decided to take a step back, partially reinvent the characters and add the theme of music.

Film music, cast and dubbing

About the use of music in film, Pawlikowski said, “Music is the glue that holds the film together. This is how they come together in the scene where he practices the scale with her and ends up playing I love you porgy . A seduction scene that works through music. ”According to the director, music is a constant mirror of where they are in their relationship. Music is the key and the third figure in the relationship, bring the two together, apart, together again and again apart. For Maja Ellmenreich from Deutschlandfunk , the music plays alongside Zula and Wiktor, the third main character: "It is both a means of communication and a yardstick for the protagonists' willingness to adapt."

Adam Soboczynski from Zeit Online comments on the folk song Dwa serduszka, cztery oczy (in German: "Two hearts, four eyes"), which is used in different versions in the film , that it will be rustic, burlesque, socialist pathetic, but also in a wonderfully remote, floating jazz version played, which is very logical. Dwa serduszka was arranged in a jazz version by Marcin Masecki . The text of the French version Deux coeurs comes from John Banzaï.

Traditional pieces of Polish folk music such as Oj dana moja dana nie wyjdę za Pana , Nie bede ja piła and Marsz Haiczek , but also the Serbian folk song Svilen konac were also used in the film . In addition to George Gershwin's I Loves You, Porgy , his pieces I've Got a Crush on You and The Man I Love were also used, which were also arranged by Masecki. Another piece is Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu . You can also hear Blue Moon in a version by Ella Fitzgerald and 24 Mila Baci by Adriano Celentano . Other songs used in the film are Kak mnogo devushek horoshih by Isaak Iosifovich Dunaevskij and Vasilij Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach, Katyusha by Matvej Isaakovich Blanter and Isakovskij Mikhail Vasilevich and The Stalin Cantata with music by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Aleksandrovich Aleksandrovich. The Internationale by Pierre Degeyter , which was also arranged by Masecki, was also used for the film . When Wiktor and Zula make their marriage vows at the end of the film, Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations can be heard . tota writes in the Tagesspiegel that the old melodies have been varied again and again over the years, be it for the jazz that Wiktor plays in the club, for the quiet during sex or for the rock 'n' roll that Zula plays with a wild dance the bar celebrates.

In December 2018, Milan Records released a soundtrack that includes three pieces of music, including Dwa Serduszka and the French version of the song.

In addition to Tomasz Kot and Joanna Kulig , who play the main roles in the film as the pianist Wiktor Warski and Zula Lichon, who he discovered and who both play and sing the piano, Borys Szyc are in Cold War as the director of the Lech Kaczmarek music school and Agata Kulesza in the role of Irena Bielecka, Viktor's colleague at the music school.

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Heike Kospach on behalf of TaunusFilm Synchron GmbH, Berlin. Florian Clyde lends his voice to Wiktor in the German version.

Filming, editing and publishing

The shooting took place in Lódz, among other places. The scene when Wiktor and Zula marry themselves in a dilapidated church was filmed in a church in the village of Kniaźie near Lubycza Królewska on the border with Ukraine. Łukasz Żal acted as cameraman , who shot the film in black and white and in an almost square format with sharp contrasts. In preparing the film, Pawlowski used contemporary photographs: “Poland was like that. There was hardly any electricity in the country and Paris was the city of lights. So I follow less cinematic models than the logic of time. ” Film editor Jarosław Kamiński added rhythm to the film with black film breaks . Dieter Oßwald from the Kino Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino says about the result : "With mirrors or shadows the director develops visual ideas full of playful sophistication, the effortless lightness of which every coke-nosed perfume advertising filmmaker should envy him." The beautiful images in crystal clear black and white were achieved in the strict 4: 3 “Academy” film image has a very special effect, Oßwald continues.

The film premiered in May 2018 as part of the international competition at the Cannes International Film Festival . In October 2018 it was shown for the first time in Switzerland and Germany as part of the Zurich Film Festival and the Film Festival Cologne. It was released in German cinemas on November 22, 2018. Despite a hint of a suicide scene at the end of the film, he was approved in Germany by the FSK for ages 12 and up. The film was released in selected US cinemas on December 21, 2018. There the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a release from the age of 17.

reception

Reviews and grossing results

So far, the film has convinced 92 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 8.2 out of a possible 10 points.

Jörg Taszman from Deutschlandfunk Kultur writes that, like in Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski is captivating in terms of form and content, and that his cinema is as latently emotional, sensual as it is ingeniously cool, full of beauty and sadness and melancholy without being nostalgic. This is also due to the two excellent and charismatic actors Tomasz Kot and Joanna Kulig , according to Taszman, and then there are the beguiling pictures by cameraman Łukasz Żal : “They also work in a historical context and especially immerse Berlin and Paris in very different light. Color would not go with such a contrasting story. That would be just too colorful. "

Adam Soboczynski from Zeit Online says that Pawlikowski will be able to develop an epic panorama of the Cold War in just 85 minutes using a couple, which is a feat. Like Ida , Cold War was filmed in that bright, concise black and white that at first glance gives the event something artificial, concentrated and almost cold, according to Soboczynski. The director is uninhibitedly nostalgic and is resurrecting the lost Eastern Bloc world with almost manic precision, says Soboczynski: "This doesn't just mean the interiors, not just the suits that were reliably better than they are today, not the huge Stalin posters at the appearances of the Dance and singing group, not the Polish tea glasses with the ornate metal brackets, not the existentially melancholy smoking, it is also the characters themselves who no longer fit into our time because they were too hard in the war that was called cold, too longing, too vulnerable, too violent, too harsh and too tender. ”The actors themselves seemed to have come from a different era, and not just the characters they embody, Soboczynski continued.

Stella Donata Haag, research assistant at the Babelsberg Film University , writes in the Tagesspiegel that Pawlikowski's pictures are old masters in the best sense of the word and radiate the aura of the sublime: “Calm, classically composed in the center, and in the narrow academy format they have an everyday glamor, that of the Italian neorealism is reminiscent of the imagery of Eastern European post-war cinema. As love becomes more and more complicated, the compositions of the images also become more sophisticated. When Wiktor and Zula become a couple at the premiere party and the role of the music begins to change because of the ensemble's success, Pawlowski implements this in a static scene, a cabinet piece with a mirror in the background. "

The film's worldwide revenues from theatrical screenings amount to nearly $ 20 million. In Germany it has so far registered 100,495 visitors.

Awards (selection)

In Cannes , Paweł Pawlikowski received an award for best director, and Cold War received five nominations at the European Film Awards and was awarded, among other things, for best European film. The film was also submitted as a candidate for Poland in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2019 Academy Awards and was later shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . The following is a selection of awards and nominations:

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2019

British Academy Film Awards 2019

British Independent Film Awards 2018

  • Nomination for best international independent film

César 2019

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

European Film Award 2018

European Film Award 2019

Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2018

  • Nomination for the FIPRESCI Prize - Film of the Year (Pawel Pawlikowski)

Film Festival Cologne 2018

  • Received the Hollywood Reporter Award (Paweł Pawlikowski)

Goya 2019

Guldbagge 2019

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

Cannes International Film Festival 2018

  • Award for the best director (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  • Nomination for the Golden Palm (Paweł Pawlikowski)

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2019

  • Award for best foreign language film
  • Award for the best camera (Łukasz Żal)

National Board of Review Awards 2018

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2019

  • Runner-up in the Best Foreign Language Film category
  • Runner-up in the Best Camera category (Łukasz Żal)

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2018

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2019

Academy Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Director (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  • Nomination for the best camera (Łukasz Żal)
  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for the FIPRESCI Prize (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  • Nomination for the Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  • Award for best actress in a foreign language film with the FIPRESCI Prize (Joanna Kulig)
As part of the Polish Film Awards , the film received 13 nominations and was awarded in seven categories, including Joanna Kulig (photo) as best actress

Polish Film Award 2018

Polish Film Festival Gdynia 2018

  • Award for the best cut (Jaroslaw Kaminski)
  • Award for the best sound in a feature film ( Maciej Pawłowski and Mirosław Makowski )
  • Awarded the Golden Kangaroo for Best Film (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  • Awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film (Paweł Pawlikowski)

Satellite Awards 2018

  • Nomination for best international film
  • Nomination for the best camera (Łukasz Żal)

Toronto International Film Festival 2018

  • Nomination for the People's Choice Award - Special Presentations (Paweł Pawlikowski)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Cold War - The latitude of love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 184057 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ The World Festival actually took place in East Berlin in 1951.
  3. ↑ Knut Elstermann: "Cold War": A great love in the turmoil of the Cold War. In: MDR Kultur, November 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Hannah Lühmann: This is the most beautiful love story of the year. In: Welt Online, November 22, 2018.
  5. ^ A b c Adam Soboczynski: "Cold War": Grandiose war of love. In: Zeit Online, November 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b Pawel Pawlikowski in conversation with Susanne Burg: "Love grows with distance". In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 17, 2018.
  7. ^ A b Maja Ellmenreich: Film review "Cold War": Love in times of the Cold War. In: Deutschlandfunk, 22. November 2018.
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