A couple meet in post war Poland as they travel the countryside seeking authentic Polish singers to promote the brave new submission to the Soviet giant. Their careers lift and take wing which flies them to the hot spot Berlin. They have to defect, of course. Now's their chance. You can probably predict the next move but I won't tell you which goes and which stays. But it doesn't end there as these soul mates are compelled to each other through the ranging alterations to life in Europe in the fifties and sixties. Their paths just keep crossing. This can be a tricky business punishable by Soviet retribution. Will there be a solution? How will it leave them?
Sounds dour? Some of it is. But it's also funny, thought provoking and always compelling. Telling his tale again in t rich deep black and white, Pawlikowski takes us back to his parents' epoque of big politics and even bigger music and sculpts an epic love story into less than ninety minutes.
With me? Let's go!
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