Transcript Polish screenwriter, film and theater director Agnieszka

AGNIESZKA
HOLLAND
Polish film and
TV director and
screenwriter
CURRICULUM VITAE
Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in
Warsaw) is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.
 She went to Czechoslovakia to study film directing at
FAMU in Prague. She began her film career working in
Poland with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and
Andrzej Wajda as her mentor.
 Since 1981 she works abroad - in Germany, France,
and now in the United States. She lives in France, in
Brittany.
 Besides making films Holland translates also Czech
literature into Polish.
FILMOGRAPHY
Her most famous films
The Secret
Garden
British drama /
fantasy film made
in 1993.
Julie Walking
Home
2002 Drama film
Europa, Europa
Drama, History, War
film from 1990. This
film won an Oscar
nomination
FILMOGRAPGY
Angry Harvest
Drama, Romance,
War, Oscar Nominated film
made in 1985
Olivier, Olivier
French Drama
from 1992 made
with Warner Bros.
Total Eclipse
Biography, Drama,
Romance from
1995 with
Leonardo DiCaprio
FILMOGRAPHY
Copying
Beethoven
Biography, Drama,
Music film made in
2006 with Ed
Harris and Diane
Kruger
Washington
Square
American
Melodrama from
1997 starring
Jennifer Jason Leigh
and Albert Finney
In Darkness
2011 Polish Oscarnominated drama film
based on true events
during German
occupation of Poland
AWARDS
AND
PRIZES

Agnieszka Holland is the current chairwoman
of European Film Academy founded in 1989
by its first president Ingmar Bergman.

She is the recipient of many prestigious
awards at festivals – in Cannes, Gdansk, Berlin,
Montreal, Golden Globe Award.

She was nominated for an Oscar three times for "Bitter Harvest" (1985), "Europa, Europa"
(1991) and "In Darkness" (2011).

She was also awarded Poland's prestigious
Officer's Cross of the Order of Restitution for
her outstanding contribution to Polish culture.

In 2002, she received the Special Eagle Award
for her consistent artistic achievement in
Poland and abroad.

She was also honoured with a lifetime
achievement award at the 1999 Film Festival
in Las Vegas.
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