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Cold War
Why this pick
Pawlikowski again uses stark monochrome images, ellipsis, and postwar Polish history to make an intimate story of love and compromise feel hauntingly spare.
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MOVIE2013 1h 22m POL
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the 1960s Polish People's Republic, Anna, a young novice nun, is told by her prioress that before she takes her vows she must visit her aunt, Wanda Gruz, who is her only surviving relative. Anna travels to visit her aunt Wanda, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking, sexually promiscuous judge who reveals that Anna's actual name is Ida Lebenstein. Ida's parents had been Jews of Poland who were murdered late in the History of Poland (1939–45) during World War II (1939–45). Ida was then an infant, and as an orphan she had been raised by the convent. Wanda, who had been a Armia Ludowa against the German occupation, had become the state prosecutor "Red Wanda" who sent "men to their deaths".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Agata Kulesza
Aunt Wanda
Agata Trzebuchowska
Anna / Ida
Dawid Ogrodnik
Lis
Adam Szyszkowski
Feliks Skiba
Jerzy Trela
Szymon Skiba
Joanna Kulig
Singer
Halina Skoczyńska
Mother Superior
Artur Janusiak
Soldier