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Between the two systems, can be a curse. In Pawel Pawlikowskis “Cold war” is tearing the lovers Zula (Joanna Kulig) and Victor (Tomasz Kot). Neither in the Stalinist Poland, still in the French exile, the charisma will find tables of the singer, and her older music lecturer to a good home.

Or to put it better: a shared homeland, because, always, the one is better under the new circumstances than the other. Zula is able to inspire the Polish audience with folk dances and songs, Victor can succeed as a Jazz Pianist in Paris. Without each other you don’t want to be anyway, and so unravels in “Cold bitter post-war Was” history as a thrilling love drama: The story of two workers ‘and peasants’ children could not come together.

Whether it is also a blessing it can be to live between two systems? Pawel Pawlikowski has not torn it up at least. He was born in 1957 in Poland, and emigrated, but with the age of 14 with his mother, first in Germany, then to Britain. Award-winning documentaries, then feature films. First in English, then in Polish. Was vilified for his Film “Ida” in the home only as anti-Polish, as the first Polish winner of the foreign Oscar celebrated.

Pawel Pawlikowski at the Oscars 2015

“for Me, it was always about the next Film I can make,” says the 61-Year-old during the Interview in Berlin, “and always in relation to my possibilities at the time.” As he made documentary films, funding was assured on the BBC.”A Golden age”, as Pawlikowski says in retrospect. When it came to the end, he had already begun to search for fictional materials. “I can raise money. Not a lot, but always enough. So there was never a time I thought: and Now you are held by something, would you like to do.”

In the arms of patrons

The freedom of artists is one of the themes that runs through “Cold war” and about the system boundaries. In post-war Poland, Stalinism as two hands wrapped around the necks of Zula and Viktor. In the West you have to throw yourself in the arms of patrons, to be able to survive. “For me, this is a matter of degrees: What are the limits and when will they attack????”, Pawlikowski says. “If you come from a country where you have to pay for his art, under certain circumstances, with the life, one of the subtle forms of restriction less dramatic. Judging, however, from total freedom, they appear to be drastically. Can’t compare to the circumstances anyway.”

As with the previous film, “Ida” can be Pawlikowskis story not a Thread to reduce. To access virtuoso Form and content into each other, support each other and function as separate stimuli. “I’m trying, at the movies my tracks to blur,” says Pawlikowski. “I want to create things that are complicated and truthful at the same time. A single Person can be both a dick as well as a wonderful person. Just as I want to present history: That it is complicated and sometimes there are no right or wrong. And the same is true for the Form to be in the best case, neither clearly the one nor clearly the other.”

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“Ida” was also nominated for the camera, Oscar, is also “Cold” in black-and-square similar Academy Format have been turned Neyine white (camera: Lukasz Zal). What could be in the repetition, such as a mesh, but quickly to a new stimulus. The perfectly framed images stand in contrast to the jump in narrative. In lots of episodes, some of them separated by almost decades, designs Pawlikowski, the love of Zula and Viktor. Epic tragedy. At the same time Cold war comes to a runtime of only 88 minutes.

In this at the same time, the secret of Pawlikowskis newer Be is nature may. His films are both artistic and accessible, concise and associative, politically explosive and exhilarating beautiful.

Petition against “Ida”

he’s a kind of recipe for success has found, was not in sight. So Ida “2014” started, neither Cannes nor Venice, but with the next-ranking London Film. After the Film had won a novice nun in Poland in the sixties, where the main prize was to stop his triumph. After more than sixty awards, the Oscar for the best foreign language Film was added in February of 2015, finally. “On the one hand, it was great,” says Pawlikowski. “It was the first foreign language film Oscar for Poland at all. On the other hand, the election campaign in Poland, and the PiS [today, the ruling party prevailed to this time-tried], to feed with the Film, the disputes.”

Because in “Ida,” a Polish character confesses to be the murder of Jews have been involved, the Film as a revisionist ostracized. The PiS-close to Anti-Defamations League of Poland launched a Petition, calling the Film a note, that Poland was occupied during the Second world war from Germany, and aid for Jews, under the heaviest penalty. Around 50,000 signatures gathered online.

With a little time interval Pawlikowski shows unaffected by the exploitation. “We are living in any dictatorship. The ruling party is extremely conservative and nationalistic. She tries to bring as much as possible under their control, the courts, for example, and public television. But on the other hand, there is a lot of resistance, and, ultimately, it’s up to us to change things and choose to walk.”

In the Video: The Trailer for “Cold war”

New visions

would feel of the current developments in Poland activated, also it ended up colleagues, many Director and colleagues. “We have no time for nonsense anymore, it’s too much,” says Pawlikowski. Agitational art is not to be expected of him. “I try to keep ideology and art, as far apart as possible. You just need a lot of room to create something, what really has a life of its own. If you break your head, what kind of message you send with your Film, who will fight against whom, be it hate the people at the end.”

For the “Cold war” suggests Pawlikowski so far, only love. In Cannes he was awarded with the prize for best Director. And the Polish Oscar submission, he also provides. Maybe these two, Poland and Pawlikowski, along with that, at least, in the foreseeable future.

“I know that there is the idea that Poland had fallen into the hands of fascists, and it is all over,” says Pawlikowski. “I think, however, that it is a Phase, which is an understandable reaction on the Phase in front of it. So understandable in the sense of ‘understandable’, not ‘justified’. Poland seems to me to be a strong company, which has more to offer than nationalist fervor and an inferiority complex.”

“Cold war – The latitude of love” (rental: New visions) at 22. November in the cinemas.