Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw, Poland) is a film and TV director and screenplay writer. November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ...

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 Kieślowski, she collaborated on the screeplay for his film, Three Colors: Blue. Like Kieślowski, in her films Holland frequently examines issues of faith. She also worked upon Wajda's Danton (1982). When interviewed by Barbara Quart 1988 p 231) Holland said that although women were important in her films feminism was not an issue. Instead she suggested that at that time there was a cross-gender solidarity against censorship which was seen as the main political issue. Krzysztof Zanussi, (b. ... Filmography Pokolenie (The Generation, 1954) Idę do słońca (Towards the Sun, document on Xawery Dunikowski, 1955) Kanał (1956) Popiol i diament or Ashes And Diamonds (1958) Lotna (1959) Niewinni czarodzieje (Innocent Sorcerers, 1960) Powiatowa lady Makbet (Siberian Lady Macbeth, 1961) Samson (1961) Lamour à vingt ans (1962) Popioły (Ashes... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Blue is the English language title of the 1993 French language film, Trois Couleurs: Bleu (available with English subtitles). ... This article discusses faith in a religious context. ...

In 1979 Holland made her third film Provincial Actors

A Woman Alone 1981 was the last film Holland made in Poland. Just martial law came into force in Poland in December 1981, Holland moved to Paris. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law (December 13, 1981) The Martial law (Polish: Stan wojenny) was introduced in Poland by the Communist regime on December 13, 1981 to prevent democratic movements (such as Solidarity) from gaining popularity and attendant political power in the country. ...

Angry Harvest (1985) was made in Germany about a Jewish women on the run in World War II. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Europa Europa (1991) was based upon the true story of a Jewish teenager who suffered from Kristallnacht escaping from Germany to Poland and then avoiding the German invasion of Poland he fled to the Soviet occupied part of Poland. Later captured after operation Barbarossa he manages to convinces the Nazis that he is pure German. Eventually he ends up being trained in as SS elite training academy. Involved in fighting in the siege of Berlin he manges to go over to the Soviets and eventually manages to emigrate to Israel. Europa Europa is a 1990 motion picture based on the autobiography by Solomon Perel, Jewish German, who pretended not to be a Jew during the Nazi era. ...

This was followed up by Olivier Olivier another tale of assumed identity which the New York Times suggests was not so well received as Europa Europa.

In 1993 she made The Secret Garden For Irish-Norwegian duo playing Neo-classical music see Secret Garden. ...

Recent films includeGolden Dreams for Disneyland, Shot in the Heart (2001) for HBO and Julia Walking Home (2001).

Holland's most recent film is The Healer (2004).

Quotes

• "His penis saved his soul. Otherwise, he might have become a total Nazi" (on Europa Europa character Solomon Perel, who attempted to pose as an Aryan German during Nazi-era Germany, despite that fact that, as a Jew, he was circumcised).

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)

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Literature

• Quart Barbara Koenig. 1988. Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-93477-3

External links

• Holland's official site