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Joanna Kulig On The “Two Hearts” At Center Of Cold War Romance – The Contenders L.A. Video

Amazons Cold War has been heating up since Pawel Pawlikowski won the Cannes Film Festivals Best Director award for it after its world premiere there in May. The black-and-white film, the follow-up to the helmers 2015 Foreign Language Oscar winner Ida, was just shortlisted for this years Oscar race as Polands entry after scoring major wins at the European Film Awards.

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The captivating music- and dance-filled film stars Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot in a love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, fatally mismatched and set against the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.

Kulig recently was in the spotlight at Deadlines annual awards-season event The Contenders Los Angeles and told the packed crowd of Academy and Oscar voters that the main song that threads throughout the film, the Polish folk staple “Dwa serduszka” (Two Hearts), itself evolved to “tell the love story of the couple” — her Zula and Kots Wiktor, which are characters based on Pawlikowskis own parents.

“[The] evolution of our music is the evolution of our love,” said Kulig, who explained (and then demonstrated, in full voice) how she had to adapt the songs stylings to match the movies shifting themes. She also had to learn various forms of dance from scratch.

Amazon is giving the film a limited U.S. theatrical release beginning Friday.

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