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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 681,760 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Agnieszka Holland is the 204th most popular film director (down from 202nd in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Poland (up from 239th in 2019) and the 7th 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 204 out of 1,581Before her are Alan J. Pakula, Otto Preminger, Chris Columbus, Lev Kuleshov, Max Ophüls, and Tony Richardson. After her are Mike Newell, Sam Raimi, Liliana Cavani, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Siodmak, and John Sturges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Agnieszka Holland ranks 67Before her are Rory Gallagher, Svetlana Savitskaya, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Kurzweil, and Tom Wilkinson. After her are Arie Haan, Claude Jade, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Hans Rosling, Robert Jordan, and Dan Simmons.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Agnieszka Holland ranks 225 out of 1,454Before her are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Emil Ludwig (1881), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Ernst Kummer (1810), and Siegbert Tarrasch (1862). After her are Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Władysław II the Exile (1105), and Alexander Bogdanov (1873).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Agnieszka Holland ranks 7Before her are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), and Jerzy Skolimowski (1938). After her are Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), and Jerzy Stuhr (1947).

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