Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw, Poland) is a film and TV director and screenplay writer.

She graduated from the Prague Film and TV Academy (FAMU). She first assisted Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda before directing films on her own. A friend of the great Polish writer and director, Krzysztof Kieslowski, she collaborated on the screeplay for his film, Three Colors: Blue. Like Kieslowski, in her films Holland frequently examines issues of faith.

She has lived abroad since 1981.

Films directed

• Grzech Boga (God's Sin, 1970, 25')
• Wieczór u Abdona (Evening at Abdon's, 1975, 48', based on a story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz)
• Dziewczyna i "Akwarius" (A Girl and Acquarius, 1975, 80')
• Niedzielne dzieci (Sunday Children1977, 80')
• Zdjęcia próbne (Screen tests, 1976, 90')
• Coś za coś (Something for something, 1977, 62', TV)
• Aktorzy prowincjonalni (Provincial actors, 1978, 108', International Critics Prize at Cannes Film Festival)
• Gorączka (Fever, 1980, 122')
• Kobieta samotna (A Lonely Woman, 1981, 93')
• Postcards from Paris (1982, francuski film TV)
• Culture (1985, documentary)
• Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest, 1985, 101', Germany, Oscara nominee for the best foreign language film)
• Kill the Priest (1988, France-UK, about murder of Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest killed by security services)
• Europa, Europa (1990, 113', France-Germany, Oscar nominne for the best screenplay)
• Olivier, Olivier (1991, 110', France)
• The Secret Garden (1993, 102')
• Red Wind (1994, TV film based on a novel of Raymond Chandler)
• Total Eclipse (1995, 111')
• Washington Square (1997, 110')
• The third miracle (1999, 119')
• Shot in the heart (2001, 98')
• Julia walking home (2001)
• Golden Dreams (2001, documentary for Disneyland)

External links

• Holland's official site