
Love — it's the feeling that should be cherished as if it determines the future of the world, or risk losing it forever. However, you can never predict the time and place of the origin of these feelings, then those are the circumstances that may become serious obstacles on the way of the happiness of two people in love, like this happened with the main characters of the romantic drama "Cold war".
synopsis Among the ruins of post-war Poland's fate brings conductor Victor, riding on a country looking for performers of traditional songs with a young singer Zola. Have they have different characters, views on life and policy, but they still the madness of fall in love with each friend. On years fate brings them again again — Berlin, Yugoslavia, Paris — their sharing the happiness up policy, personal shortcomings, but despite all the tests, nothing can break them Museum other.
The film features some great game performers of the main roles. Tomasz kot, who plays Victor, embodied on the screen the image of a man with a free spirit and views, which for true love is willing to sacrifice his own principles. Stunning actress and singer with an angel's face the Swarms of St. John played the role of Zola, girl with a difficult past, which is, however, a cold to"Western values", but also brings a great sacrifice, as and Victor, for the sake of gaining long-awaited happiness.
As you know, the film is in many ways autobiographical, more precisely, Director Paul Pawlikowski in fact told the tragic story of their parents. Pawlikowski draws on the screen is not a beautiful romantic story of two loving hearts, and violent drama, in which a mix of everything, including feelings, politics and personal troubles. In his film, the Director tries to convey the tragedy to the time when, on first glance, completely different people do not able to live without friend, but under the pressure of circumstances have to come together and break up again and again.
Plot film develops on several years. The story begins in post-war Poland in 1949. A group of civil servants travels the country in search of young talents, able to sing folk songs to collect from team that is representative of people's Republic the arena of the socialist camp. One of the band members conductor Victor meets a young Polish woman Zulu. They start a whirlwind romance. In tour East Berlin Victor offers Zula to run in the Western sector, and in France. However, the Zula, which is loyal to the authorities and even periodically "knocks" on Victor decides to stay. Time passes, and fate still driving heroes, first in Tito's Yugoslavia, and then France. But it combines the happiness of heroes stopping not politics, and personal problems, which again bred them on different sides of the barricades. And to finally find each other they both will have to make great sacrifices, which is not will be painless.
Summary indeed, the Cold war — very strong sensual picture of real love, not originated in time and not the place. Film perfectly conveys the tragedy of the era, when the idea stood above human life, and when innocent lives were forced to sacrifice a lot if only on a small fraction of the time to find long-awaited happiness.
10 of 10