Agnieszka Holland Biography (1948-)

Given name is pronounced "Egg-nee-es-ka"; born November 28, 1948, in Warsaw, Poland; immigrated to France, 1981; daughter of Henryk (a journalist)and Irena (a journalist; maiden name, Rybczynska) Holland; married Laco Adamik (a director), 1968 (divorced); children: Katarzyna "Kasia" (a storyboard artist). Addresses: Agent: Rick Nicita, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Manager: Pat Dollard, Catch 23, 100 North Crescent Dr., Suite 323, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Nationality: Polish
Gender: Female
Occupation: Writer, director, actress
Birth Details: November 28, 1948; Warsaw, Poland

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Director
God's Sin (also known as Hrich boha), FAMU/Praga, 1970
Le complot (also known as The Conspiracy, Conspiracion para matar a un cura, El complot de los rebeldes, and Il complotto), 1973
A Girl and Acquarius, Zespoly Filmowe, 1975
Obrazki z zycia (also known as Pictures from Life), 1975
Aktorzy prowincjonalni (also known as The Provincial Actors), Zespoly Filmowe, 1978
Goraczka (also known as Fever and The Fever: The Story of the Bomb), Zespot, Unit X, 1980
(With Maciej Karpinski) Kobieta samotna i chromy (also known as A Lonely Woman, A Woman Alone, Woman on her Own, and Kobieta samotna), 1981
Culture (documentary; also known as Kultura), 1985
Angry Harvest (also known as Bitter Harvest; originally released as Bittere Ernte, 1985, European Classics, 1986
To Kill a Priest (also known as Le complot, Popieluszko, and Zabic ksiedza), Columbia, 1987
Europa, Europa (also known as Hitlerjunge salomon), Orion,1991
Olivier, Olivier, Sony Pictures Classics, 1992
The Secret Garden, Warner Bros., 1993
Total Eclipse (also known as Eclipse totale and Rimbaudverlaine), Fine Line, 1995
Washington Square, Buena Vista, 1997
The Falconer, 1999
The Third Miracle, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
Golden Dreams, Buena Vista, 2001
Julie Walking Home, Overseas Film Group, 2001
(With others) Prawdziwa historia Janosika i Uhorcika (also known as The True Story of Janosik and Uhorcik and Janosik--Pravdiva historia), 2003
Producer
Bark, 2000
Film Appearances
Secretary, Blizna (also known as The Scar), 1976
Witowska, Przesluchanie, 1982, released in the United States as The Interrogation, Unit X/Zespoly, 1990
The director, Total Eclipse (also known as Eclipse totale and Rimbaud verlaine), Fine Line, 1995
In the Shadow of Hollywood (also known as A l'ombre d'Hollywood), National Film Board of Canada, 2000
Television Work
Director; Movies

An Evening with Abdon (also known as Wieczor u Abdona), 1974
Niedzielne dziece (also known as Sunday Children), Zespot,Unit X, 1976
"Story I," Zdjecia probne (also known as Proof Shots and Screen Tests), Zespot, Unit X, 1977
Shot in the Heart, HBO, 2001
Director; Episodic
"Red Wind," Fallen Angels, Showtime, 1994
Director; Other
Something for Something (also known as Cos za cos), [Poland], 1977
(With Laco Adamik) Lorenzaccio, 1978
The Trial, 1980
Postcards from Paris (documentary; also known as Les cartes postales de Paris), [France], 1987
Largo Desolato, 1990
Television Appearances
Episodic
Conversations in World Cinema, 2000
Stage Work
Director
The Emigrees, 1976
(With Laco Adamik) Woyzeck, 1978
Washington Square, 1996
WRITINGS
Screenplays
God's Sin (also known as Hrich boha), FAMU/Praga, 1970
A Girl and Acquarius, Zespoly Filmowe, 1975
(With Witold Zatorski) Aktorzy prowincjonalni (also known as The Provincial Actors), Zespoly Filmowe, 1978
Dead Case, 1978
(With Andrzej Wajda) Rough Treatment (also known as Without Anesthesia and Bez znieculenia), Film Polski, 1980
Cziowiek z zelaza (also known as Man of Iron), 1981
(With Maciej Karpinsk) Kobieta samotna i chromy (also known as A Lonely Woman, A Woman Alone, Woman on her Own, and Kobieta samotna), 1981
Mezczyzna niepotrzebny (also known as Man Unnecessary), 1981
(With Jean-Claude Carriere, Wajda, Boleslaw Michalek, and Jacek Gasiorowski) Danton (based on the play The Danton Affair by Stanislawa Przybyszewska), Triumph/Columbia, 1983
(With Wajda and Michalek) A Love in Germany (based on the book byRolf Hochhuth; originally released as Ein Liebe in Deutschland, 1983,also known as Un amour en Allemagne), Triumph, 1984
(With Paul Hengge) Angry Harvest (also known as Bitter Harvest; originally released as Bittere Ernte, 1985, European Classics, 1986
Anna (based on a story by Yurek Bogayevicz and Holland), Vestron,1987
(With Carriere, Wajda, and Edward Zebrowski) Les possedes (also known as The Possessed; based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Gaumont, 1987
(With Jean-Yves Pitoun) To Kill a Priest (also known as Le complot, Popieluszko, and Zabic ksiedza; based on a story by Holland), Columbia, 1987
(With others) La Amiga (also known as The Girlfriend, Die Freundin, and La Amiga--Die Freundin), 1988
(With Hengge) Europa, Europa (also known as Hitlerjunge salomon; based on the book Memoires by Solomon Perel), Orion, 1991
Korczak, New Yorker Films, 1991
Olivier, Olivier, Sony Pictures Classics, 1992
(Story) Three Colors: Blue (also known as Blue, Bleu, Trois couleurs: Bleu, and Trzy kolory: Niebieski), 1993
Julie Walking Home, Overseas Film Group, 2001
Teleplays
Movies
An Evening with Abdon (also known as Wieczor u Abdona), 1974
Niedzielne dziece (also known as Sunday Children), Zespot,Unit X, 1976
"Story I," Zdjecia probne (also known as Proof Shots and Screen Tests), Zespot, Unit X, 1977

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Authors, Volume 144, Gale, 1994
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 2: Directors, St. James Press, 1996
Women Filmmakers and Their Films, St. James Press, 1998

Periodicals

American Film, September, 1986, p. 13
Film Quarterly, winter, 1998, p. 2

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