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Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland
Date of Birth: 28 Nov 1948
Country: Poland
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 34 (Director), 19 (Writer)
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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)
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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)
Enen
During the cleanup work in Wroclaw hospital, destroyed during the floods, a young doctor notes that documents one of the patients disappeared without a trace. The patient himself is unable to be with anyone understood, does not respond to attempts to contact. The doctor chooses to apply to mysterious patient therapy, which will discover his identity. Private investigation leads him to explain the puzzle.
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)
Three Colors: White
Second of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society shows a man dealing with a Polish immigrant whose wife wants to divorce him because he can't perform in bed (imdb)
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Three Colors: Blue
First of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns how a composer deals with the death of her husband and child (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)
Europa Europa
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth. (imdb)
Korczak
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war... (imdb)
La Amiga
María and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos. (imdb)
To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. (imdb)
Anna
Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in N.Y.C.
Danton
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine. (imdb)
A Love in Germany
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. (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)
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)
Bez znieczulenia
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. (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)
Wieczór u Abdona
A TV debut from a polish director Agnieszka Holland.
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