Directed by:
Paweł PawlikowskiCinematography:
Łukasz ŻalCast:
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Dražen Šivak, Slavko Sobin, Aloïse Sauvage (more)VOD (4)
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This sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a performance for the ages). Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains—universes bridged by their passion for music and for each other. Photographed in luscious monochrome and suffused with the melancholy of the simple folk song that provides a motif for the couple’s fateful affair, Paweł Pawlikowski’s timeless story—inspired by that of his own parents—is a heart-stoppingly grand vision of star-crossed love caught up in the tide of history. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Achievement in Directing)
- 2019 - Best Foreign Language Film
- 2019 - Łukasz Żal (Best Achievement in Cinematography)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Director)
- 2019 - Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Original Screenplay)
- 2019 - Łukasz Żal (Best Cinematography)
- 2019 - Best Film not in the English Language
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- 2018 - Best International Independent Film
European Film Awards
- 2018 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Film)
- 2018 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Director)
- 2018 - Joanna Kulig (Best Actress)
- 2018 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Screenwriter)
- 2018 - Jarosław Kamiński (Best Editor)
- 2018 - Tomasz Kot (Best Actor)
César Awards
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Foreign Film)
Goya Awards
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best European Feature)
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Non-English Language Film)
Polish Film Awards
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Film)
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Director)
- 2019 - Joanna Kulig (Best Actress)
- 2019 - Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Screenplay)
- 2019 - Łukasz Żal (Best Cinematography)
- 2019 - Jarosław Kamiński (Best Editing)
- 2019 - Maciej Pawłowski, Mirosław Makowski (Best Sound)
- 2019 - Tomasz Kot (Best Actor)
- 2019 - Borys Szyc (Best Supporting Actor)
- 2019 - Agata Kulesza (Best Supporting Actress)
- 2019 - Katarzyna Sobańska, Marcel Sławiński (Best Production Design)
- 2019 - Aleksandra Staszko (Best Costume Design)
- 2019 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Audience Award)
Guldbagge Awards
- 2018 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Foreign Film)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2019 - Best Foreign Language Film
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2018 - Best Foreign Language Film
- 2018 - Łukasz Żal (Best Cinematography)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2018 - Best Foreign Language Film
Cannes Film Festival
- 2018 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Best Director)
- 2018 - Paweł Pawlikowski (Golden Palm - Official Competition)