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Cold War (2018)

★ 7.4 · 1,580 ratings on TMDB
Cold War poster★ 7.4

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

DirectorPaweł Pawlikowski
CastAdam Ferency, Adam Szyszkowski, Adam Woronowicz, Agata Kulesza, Borys Szyc, Cédric Kahn
GenresDrama, Music, Romance
The emergence reading

Cold War keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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