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Dec 22, 2018 · When his parents died, in 1989, just before the end of the Cold War, Pawlikowski felt a huge absence in his life, the absence of a “fatherland and motherland,” as he described it.
Nov 9, 2018 · Polish Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski says his on-again, off-again, 'never-ending disaster' parents inspired his love story in the film 'Cold War.'. When Pawel Pawlikowski’s last movie, Ida, won ...
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Feb 11, 2019 · Tim Adams. Fri 8 Feb 2019 19.00 EST. I n retrospect, the steps that brought Paweł Pawlikowski back to his native Warsaw seven years ago sound something like fate. He had been uprooted from his...
Dec 21, 2018 · My father had three heart attacks; he was a heavy smoker and drinker. They were quite young when they died, 57 and 67, but they died together in a not dissimilar fashion to what you see in the...
Dec 20, 2018 · The work is loosely based on the story of Pawlikowski’s own parents—his ballet-dancer mother and doctor father who married, unmarried, and remarried each other over many years and in several ...
Dec 18, 2018 · It wasn’t until years after his parents died that Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski saw how to transform their tumultuous postwar romance into “Cold War.”
“There were bullet holes in the courtyard I grew up in,” he has said. “Warsaw was once a battleground, then it became a morgue.” In 1971, after his parents had divorced, his mother took him to London on what he thought was a holiday. They never returned. Whatever the pains of exile may have been, England seems to have suited him.
