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Cold war / Amazon Studios and Opus Film, Polish Film Institute, MK2 Films, Film4, BFI present in association with Protagonist Pictures ; Opus Film, Apocalypso Pictures, MK Productions co-production ; in co-production with Arte France Cinema, Canal Plus Poland, Kino Świat, The Lodz Film Fund, Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund, The Silesian Film Fund, The Podkarpackie Film Fund ; a film by Paweł Pawlikowski ; story, direction, Paweł Pawlikowski ; produced by Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska ; screenplay, Paweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Głowacki, with the collaboration of Piotr Borkowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3093DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Polish, Croatian, French, German, Italian, Russian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1005.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Director-approved DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436654
  • 1681436655
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Photography, Łukasz Źal ; editor, Jarsoław Kaminski ; jazz and song arrangements, Marsin Masecki.
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar.Summary: A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside in 1949, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. 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.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; 5.1 surround.

Polish, Croatian, French, German, Italian and Russian dialogue with optional English subtitles.

Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar.

Photography, Łukasz Źal ; editor, Jarsoław Kaminski ; jazz and song arrangements, Marsin Masecki.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2018.

Full screen (1.33:1)

MPAA rating: R; for some sexual content, nudity and language.

A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside in 1949, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. 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.

Special features: new conversation between Pawlikowski and filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu; press conference featuring Pawlikowski and Źal, actors Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot and Borys Szyc, and producer Ewa Puszczyńska; documentaries from 2018 on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Pawlikowski and others ; trailer; in booklet: an essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek.

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