PRINCIPAL CAST

Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cedric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Drazen Sivak, Slavko Sobin, Aloise Sauvage, Adam Szyszkowski, Anna Zagorska, Tomasz Markiewicz, Izabela Andrzejak

DIRECTOR

Pawel Pawlikowski

WRITER

Pawel Pawlikowski

SYNOPSIS

This sweeping, delirious romance by PaweÅ‚ Pawlikowski 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 the jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris, to which he escapes, 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, 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.

BOX OFFICE

$3.5 Million

GENRE

Drama/Romance

RATING

Rated R
some sexual content, nudity and language

RUN TIME

88 Minutes

STUDIO

Criterion Collection