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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 cultural and 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. In 2017, she received the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin International Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agnieszka Holland is the 211th most popular film director (down from 192nd in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Poland (down from 240th 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 211 out of 2,041. Before her are Roy Andersson, Francesco Rosi, Tony Richardson, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Garry Marshall, and Chris Columbus. After her are Frank Lloyd, Robert Aldrich, Miklós Jancsó, Mahesh Bhatt, Alfonso Cuarón, and Liliana Cavani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Agnieszka Holland ranks 99. Before her are Alan Parsons, Chris de Burgh, Stephen Schwartz, Rory Gallagher, Pim Fortuyn, and Steven Chu. After her are Jerzy Kukuczka, Mahesh Bhatt, Michel Suleiman, Stevie Nicks, Alia Al-Hussein, and John Gray.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Agnieszka Holland ranks 259 out of 1,694. Before her are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Itzhak Stern (1901), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), and Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881). After her are Hermann Schwarz (1843), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Jan Długosz (1415), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Agnieszka Holland ranks 7. Before her are Billy Wilder (1906), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), and Jerzy Grotowski (1933). After her are Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), and Walerian Borowczyk (1923).

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