Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland

Polish film director and screenwriter (born 1948)
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Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter. Best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most eminent filmmakers. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.

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Agnieszka Holland was born on Sunday, 28 November 1948 in Warsaw, Poland. Her full name at birth was Agnieszka Holland. She is best known as a director. Holland's country of citizenship (nationality) is Polish. For university, she studied at FAMU film school in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her religion is listed as Roman Catholic. She has dark brown eyes and salt and pepper hair (color). Agnieszka Holland is 76 years old and her zodiac star sign is Sagittarius.

You can find people similar to Agnieszka Holland by visiting our lists Film people from Warsaw and Polish women film directors.

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Agnieszka Holland
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28 November 1948
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Warsaw, Poland
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Film director, screenwriter
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  • Considers feminism not a central topic in her work, although women always are important in her films...
  • Born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, she was raised a Catholic...
  • "My cinema has always oscillated between Polish pathos and Czech civilness"...
  • "I think I was influenced by the Czech New Wave the most, especially Evald Schorm and Jan Nemec, Ivan Passer, and my professors were Karel Kachyna and Otakar Vávra. Schorm has also influenced me as a person"...
  • "I went to school in Prague because there was no chance for me to be accepted at Lodz [film school}. My father was a well-known Party member and journalist who had been arrested on false accusations, and committed suicide by jumping out of a window while in custody. His death was an important event. Also, at FAMU, I was politically engaged, and I was also arrested and sentenced. Then, around 1970, the situation improved in Poland and it became unbearable for me in Czechoslovakia.{2015}"...
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FAMU film school in Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Agnieszka Holland is known for her role in the film Total Eclipse (1995) - .

She is also known for her role in the film Green Border (2023) as producer.

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