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This sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) , a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a performance for the ages) . Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains - universes bridged by their passion for music and for each other. Photographed in luscious monochrome and suffused with the melancholy of the simple folk song that provides a motif for the couple's fateful affair, Pawe Pawlikowski's timeless story - inspired by that of his own parents - is a heart-stoppingly grand vision of star-crossed love caught up in the tide of history.

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