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Cold War

Zimna wojna

2018

In the ruins of postwar Poland, a musician and a passionate young singer fall into a turbulent, decades-spanning love affair that carries them across the Iron Curtain and back, forever mismatched and unable to part. Paweł Pawlikowski's ravishing, black-and-white romance.

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