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Agnieszka Holland

Film Director / Screenwriter / Theatre Director / Writer | * 11/28/1948 (75) | Warsaw, Mazowieckie (Poland)
Agnieszka Holland (Polish: [aɡˈɲɛʂka ˈxɔlant]; born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland. Holland is best known for her films Europa Europa (1990), for which she received a Golden Globe Award as well as an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, The Secret Garden (1993), Angry Harvest and the Holocaust drama In Darkness, the last two of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2017, she received a Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2020, she was elected President of the European Film Academy. In 2023,... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | History

Known for these Movies & Shows

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. ...

Europa Europa

FSK: 12+ years

1990 | 3.7/5 | 1h 52min
History, Drama, War
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In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped ...

Green Border

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2023 | 3.7/5 | 2h 27min
Drama
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In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent ...

Mr. Jones

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2019 | 3.4/5 | 1h 59min
Thriller, Drama, History
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A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murd ...

Spoor

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2017 | 3.2/5 | 2h 8min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Awards & Nominations for Agnieszka Holland

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Alfred Bauer Prize Commander With Star of The Order of Polonia Restituta Officer of The Order of Polonia Restituta Golden Medal for Merit To Culture Order of Princess Olga, 3rd Class Saint George Medal Czech Lion Award for Best Director Medal of The President of Slovak Republic Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay European Film Academy Lux Award 2x European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
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Movies with Agnieszka Holland as Actress(12)

as herself2021 Talking Heads 2021
as Self - Filmmaker2021 Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
as Self - Filmmaker2019 Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
as herself2018 CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
as herself2017 The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
as herself2015 French Cinema Mon Amour
as herself2014 The Return of Agnieszka H.
as herself2005 Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
as herself2000 In the Shadow of Hollywood
as Witkowska1989 Interrogation
as Reżyser Angieszka (niewymieniona w czołówce)1977 Screen Tests
as Secretary1976 The Scar

TV Shows/Series with Agnieszka Holland as Actress(1)

as uczestniczka pogrzebu Szczęsnego2007 Ekipa

Movies with Agnieszka Holland as Crew(54)

Directing/Director2023 Green Border
Writing/Writer2023 Green Border
Production/Producer2023 Green Border
Directing/Director2020 Charlatan
Writing/Writer2019 Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto
Directing/Director2019 Mr. Jones
Directing/Director2017 Spoor
Writing/Writer2017 Spoor
Directing/Director2011 In Darkness
Directing/Director2009 Janosik: A True Story
Directing/Director2006 A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Directing/Director2006 Copying Beethoven
Directing/Director2002 Julie Walking Home
Directing/Director2001 Shot in the Heart
Directing/Director2001 Golden Dreams
Directing/Director1999 The Third Miracle
Directing/Director1997 Washington Square
Directing/Director1995 Total Eclipse
Directing/Director1995 Red Wind
Writing/Author1993 Three Colors: Blue
Directing/Director1993 The Secret Garden
Directing/Director1992 Olivier, Olivier
Writing/Writer1992 Olivier, Olivier
Writing/Writer1990 Korczak
Directing/Director1990 Europa Europa
Writing/Screenplay1990 Europa Europa
Writing/Writer1989 The Girlfriend
Directing/Director1988 To Kill a Priest
Writing/Writer1988 To Kill a Priest
Writing/Screenplay1988 The Possessed
Directing/Director1987 A Woman Alone
Writing/Writer1987 A Woman Alone
Writing/Screenplay1987 Anna
Writing/Story1987 Anna
Directing/Director1985 Angry Harvest
Writing/Writer1985 Angry Harvest
Writing/Screenplay1983 Danton
Writing/Screenplay1983 A Love in Germany
Writing/Screenplay1982 Mężczyzna niepotrzebny!
Directing/Director1981 Fever
Directing/Director1980 The Trial
Writing/Writer1980 The Trial
Directing/Director1979 Provincial Actors
Writing/Writer1979 Provincial Actors
Writing/Screenplay1978 Without Anesthesia
Directing/Director1977 Something for Something
Writing/Writer1977 Something for Something
Directing/Director1977 Sunday Children
Directing/Director1977 Screen Tests
Writing/Writer1977 Screen Tests
Directing/Director1976 Obrazki z życia
Directing/Director1976 Evening at Abdon's
Directing/Director1970 God's Sin
Writing/Writer1970 God's Sin

TV Shows/Series with Agnieszka Holland as Crew(12)

Directing/Director2018 The First
Directing/Director2018 1983
Production/Executive Producer2018 1983
Directing/Director2013 Burning Bush
Directing/Director2013 House of Cards
Directing/Director2011 Bez tajemnic
Directing/Director2011 The Killing
Directing/Director2010 Treme
Directing/Director2007 Ekipa
Directing/Director2003 Cold Case
Directing/Director2002 The Wire
Directing/Director1993 Fallen Angels

Full Name: Agnieszka Holland
Citizenship: Poland
Born: Sunday, 11/28 1948 (November) in Warsaw, Mazowieckie (Poland) (current age: 75 years + 142 days)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Polish (PL), Slovak (SK)
Educated at: Academy of Performing Arts, Stefan Batory Gymnasium and Lyceum, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Employer: Brooklyn College
Member of: Stefan Batory Foundation, Polish Film Academy, Olga Tokarczuk Foundation, Czech Film and Television Academy
Spouses (current/former): Laco Adamík
Father: Henryk Holland
Mother: Irena Rybczyńska-Holland
Other names for Agnieszka Holland (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Agnieska Holland"
Agnieszka Holland frequently works together with these people:
Andrzej Wajda (13x, Crew)
David Simon (9x, Crew)
Jacek Petrycki (9x, Crew)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (7x, Crew)
Veena Sud (7x, Crew)
Beau Willimon (6x, Crew)
Allan Starski (6x, Crew)
Eric Overmyer (6x, Crew)
Laco Adamik (5x, Crew)
Adam Ferency (5x, Actor)
Zbigniew Preisner (5x, Crew)
Jolanta Dylewska (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:33581, Added: 05/13/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024