FILM DIRECTOR

Agnieszka Holland

1948 - Today

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Agnieszka Holland (Polish: [aɡˈɲɛʂka ˈxɔlant]; born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland. Holland is best known for her films Europa Europa (1990), for which she received a Golden Globe Award as well as an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, The Secret Garden (1993), Angry Harvest and the Holocaust drama In Darkness, the last two of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agnieszka Holland has received more than 735,005 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Agnieszka Holland is the 192nd most popular film director (up from 204th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Poland (down from 225th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Film Director.

Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film director and screenwriter. She has directed many films, but is most famous for her work on Europa Europa (1990), In Darkness (2011), and Spoor (2013).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Agnieszka Holland ranks 192 out of 2,041. Before her are Jean Negulesco, Miklós Jancsó, Henry Hathaway, Dino Risi, Marco Bellocchio, and Chris Columbus. After her are Wes Anderson, Raoul Walsh, Stephen Frears, Richard Donner, Margarethe von Trotta, and Lev Kuleshov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Agnieszka Holland ranks 73. Before her are Edwige Fenech, Chris de Burgh, Radomir Antić, Alan Parsons, Maye Musk, and Steven Chu. After her are Nathalie Baye, Alia Al-Hussein, Ray Kurzweil, René Arnoux, Dan Simmons, and Hartmut Michel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Agnieszka Holland ranks 240 out of 1,694. Before her are Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), and Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825). After her are Arnold Zweig (1887), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Adolf Engler (1844), Martin Agricola (1486), Bolesław Prus (1847), and Udo Lattek (1935).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Agnieszka Holland ranks 8. Before her are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Billy Wilder (1906), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), and Jerzy Skolimowski (1938). After her are Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), and Jerzy Hoffman (1932).

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Filmography

House of Cards
Director
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.
8 / 10
The Wire
Director
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
8.6 / 10
The Secret Garden
Director
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. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Aug 13o 19937.4 / 10