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Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her cultural and political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and immigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.
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culture · Polish film director and screenwriter (born 1948) · film director · screenwriter · theatre director · writer · director · also Agnieszka Holland, Holland
Born 28 November 1948 · Q231019
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2026· 7 entries
“it was like phone sex and I was the cable”
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BroadwayWorld: Review: TROUBLE IN TAHITI and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, Opera Holland Park
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WBUR: Looking for 'Franz': Agnieszka Holland's Kafka biopic pursues the man behind the legend
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Moviejawn: With FRANZ, Agnieszka Holland creates a surreal biopic worthy of Kafka himself
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SMU Athletics: Mustang Partners Announces Gift From Ann Marlow Holland ’82 and C. Malcolm Holland, III ’82 to Support Student-Athletes, Business Students
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The Guardian: Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
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2025· 1 entry
Her Franz Kafka biopic Franz premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
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2024· 1 entry
Won Czech Medal of Merit presented by Petr Pavel (2024).
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2023· 3 entries
Her film Green Border won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival
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Holland appeared as a guest star in the Polish Netflix series Absolute Beginners
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Her film Green Border, which portrays the plight of migrants caught in the Belarus–European Union border crisis, premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Czech Lion for Best Director for Charlatan (2021).
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Won Medal of the President of the Slovak Republic (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
Was elected President of the European Film Academy
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Her next film Charlatan was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards making the February shortlist
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2019· 1 entry
Won the Golden Lions Award (Polish: Złote Lwy) at the 44th Gdynia Film Festival for her historical film Mr
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2017· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear Jury Prize for Spoor (2017).
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Received the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin International Film Festival
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2007· 1 entry
Holland, her sister Magdalena Łazarkiewicz and her daughter Katarzyna Adamik directed the Polish political drama series Ekipa, and in 2008 Holland became the first president of the Polish Film Academy
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2006· 2 entries
“filmmakers of the younger generation lack life experience”
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Holland returned to direct the eighth episode of the fourth season ("Corner Boys")
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2003· 1 entry
Holland was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival
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1991· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film (1991).
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1988· 7 entries
“(…) ja jestem uparta i jeśli już coś zaczynam, to też kończę.”
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“Aktualne dla współczesnego widza są pytania dotyczące tożsamości, wolności, odwagi i poświęcenia dla idei – oraz ceny tego poświęcenia, pytania dotyczące tchórzostwa, tego, co jest bohaterstwem, kiedy bohater uznany jest przez społeczność, czy ludzie niepoddani totalitarnej presji równie łatwo decydują się na kompromisy.”
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“Holocaust zamienił się w rodzaj stereotypu, który w pewnym sensie przykrył prawdę o tym, czym był naprawdę. (…) Musimy zmienić stereotypy. Że mamy czarno-biały obraz. Że wszystkie ofiary to anioły. Oczywiście, że uprawiali seks i nie tylko.”
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“Ja nie znam żadnego filmowca, który lubi Trumpa. Wszyscy widzimy w nim postać, która jest niebezpieczna, nieodpowiedzialna, kapryśna i narcystyczna. Wpatrzony jest w siebie i swoje zyski. Nie za bardzo wierzę, żeby on robił coś dla dobra ludzkości.”
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“Jarosław Kaczyński nie jest zabawny, jest ciągle groźny, więc nie patrzę na to tak ludycznie.”
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“Opis: o werdykcie Akademii Filmowej i filmie Artysta.”
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“Mieszkania przydzielono ZWM-owcom. Mój ojciec był dość ważną szychą w Związku Walki Młodych. Wokół mieszkali sami znajomi. Prowadzili bujne życie alkoholowo-towarzyskie.”
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1983· 1 entry
“s Danton, A Love in Germany (1983), The Possessed (1988) and Korczak (1990). She also developed her own projects with Western European production companies, directing Angry Harvest (1985), To Kill a Priest (1988) and Olivier, Olivier (1992). Holland received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for Angry Harvest, a West German production about a Jewish woman on the run during World War II. Holland”
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1982· 1 entry
And reading the manuscript; both were living in Paris at that time
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1981· 1 entry
Before immigrating to France shortly before the December 1981 imposition of martial law in Poland
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1957· 1 entry
“Drugi mąż mamy, dziennikarz i publicysta Stanisław Brodzki, też był żydowskim komunistą, nawet znacznie bardziej homo politicus niż mój ojciec. Brodzki do 1957 roku kierował działem kulturalnym „Trybuny Ludu”, a potem pracował w tygodniku „Świat” i w „Polskich Perspektywach.”
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-11-28.
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1943· 1 entry
“s film, the main character grows fond of the children of the Chiger family, whom the director depicted quite accurately in the film, says Krystyna Chiger (now Keren). She was 7 in 1943, when she went to live in the sewers under Lvov. Now 76, she says Holland showed her the film just before it was finished.”
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1941· 1 entry
Solomon convinced a German officer that he was German and found himself enrolled in the Hitler Youth
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