Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland
Date of Birth: 28 Nov 1948
Country: Poland
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 31 (Director), 18 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (4) | Director (31) | Writer (18)
Shot in the Heart
HBO Films presents the true story of two men torn apart by a tortured family legacy -- and brought together by a notorious execution, as the eyes of the world looked on. (HBO Films)
The Third Miracle
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood. During his investigation, the priest, who is experiencing a crisis of faith, re-discovers his own purpose in life. (imdb)
Europa Europa
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth. (imdb)
Total Eclipse
A sensationalized retelling of the Rimbaud-Verlaine story. The great French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote all his poems, which continue to amaze and inspire to this day, during a brief burst of activity in the early 1870s, when he was just a teenager (imdb)
The Secret Garden
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle... (imdb)
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Olivier, Olivier
A boy of nine years dissapears without any trace. Six years later he appears again in Paris. But there are doubts about his real identity. (imdb)
Copying Beethoven
A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life. (imdb)
Bittere Ernte
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar... (imdb)
Kobieta samotna
A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. They live in a drab apartment. She is a mail carrier and her son is her only pride and joy. She hardly communicates with anybody else in a humanly open and natural way... (imdb)
Washington Square
Catherine Sloper has found the man of her dreams in Morris Townsend, but her plans to marry him are strongly opposed by her father, who believes Townsend is only interested in his daughter for her money. But Catherine is determined to follow her heart, even if she loses her inheritance in the process. But just what are Townsend's intentions? (imdb)
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Based on a true story. As a young boy, Eddie Araujo always felt different somehow. She started putting on her mom's makeup and wearing her mom's clothes, which her mom found odd. By the time she entered her teen years, Eddie could no longer hide the fact that she was a lot different, that she was meant to be female and not male. When she finally accepted it and with her mom's eventual support, Eddie changed her name to Gwen and started to live life as female until a tragic night changed everythi (imdb)
Goraczka
he story follows the passing of a bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown. (imdb)
To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. (imdb)
Janosik. Prawdziwa historia
The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on a real XVIII century documents and on a romantic legend, operating with a very subjective, original lyricism: the hero is tragic and at the same time very contemporary. (imdb)
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Julie Walking Home
Her son dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart, Julie flees to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart. (imdb)
Niedzielne dzieci
A middle-aged pair of newly weds is still without a child after two years of marriage. It's an embarassment so they decide to adopt a child. This takes time, however, and they cannot wait. The solution is to fake a pregnancy and make a deal with a young girl expecting an illegitimate child, who in turn does not want give the baby up to the adoption home. The deal is made, pregnancy faked and then the middle aged wife suddenly finds herself pregnant. (imdb)
In Darkness
Veteran director Agnieszka Holland focusses on a little-known phenomenon in Second World War Poland, Jews hiding in the underground sewer systems of the major cities to escape deportation and the death camps. (tiff.net)
Burning Bush
Burning Bush (2013) - TV Mini-Series
This epic, long-form docudrama by acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland chronicles the political, legal, and moral fallout that followed after Czech student protestor Jan Palach set himself on fire in protest against government repression in 1969. (tiff.net)
Rosemary\
Rosemary's Baby (2014) - TV Mini-Series
Modern 4 hour mini-series adaptation of the classic novel by Ira Levin focusing on young Rosemary Woodhouse's suspicions that her neighbors may belong to a Satanic cult who are hell bent on getting one thing: the baby she is carrying. (imdb)
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The Wire
The Wire (2002) - TV Series
Baltimore drug scene, seen through the eyes of drug dealers, and law enforcement. (imdb)
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Treme
Treme (2010) - TV Series
Life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA. (imdb)
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Aktorzy prowincjonalni
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. (Polish Cinema Database)
Pokot
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, 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 murderer, but nobody believes her. (imdb)
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Wieczór u Abdona
A TV debut from a polish director Agnieszka Holland.
The First
The First (2018) - TV Series
Fictional series to chronicle the effort to send the first manned mission to Mars. (imdb)
1983
1983 (2018) - TV Series
Decades after a 1983 terrorist attack, a law student and a cop uncover a conspiracy that's kept Poland as a police state and the Iron Curtain standing.
Mr. Jones
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
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Charlatan
The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties. (imdb)
+5
Zielona granica
Follows a family of Syrian refugees, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard. They all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus. (imdb)
+5
House of Cards
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The Affair
The Affair (2014) - TV Series
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