Agnieszka Holland
Also Known As: Agnieska Holland
Biography: Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948) is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Agnieszka Holland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: November 28, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
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Talking Heads 2021
Overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Jánošík (Vykrádaný superhrdina)
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Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Interrogation
Overview: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem
Overview: Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Screen Tests
Overview: Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Man of Marble
Overview: A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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The Scar
Overview: When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-06
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Overview: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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Wave vs. Shore
Overview: Martin Štrba’s inventive documentary tells the remarkable story of a group of Slovak photographers whose groundbreaking work challenged Communist orthodoxy in the 1980ss.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2014-11-06
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French Cinema Mon Amour
Overview: French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-07-06
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Illumination
Overview: Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
Overview: August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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The Return of Agnieszka H.
Overview: A full feature co-production documentary about the famous Polish director Agnieszka Holland and her relationship to Czechoslovakia. „Czech culture was a different mirror to our world.“ Agnieszka Holland in an interview for Czech daily MF Dnes The film has two basic storylines: It depicts the life of Agnieszka Holland during her studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague towards the end of the 1960’s, her friends, her participation in a student strike and her arrest for supporting the dissident movement and anti-state tendencies. The second storyline follows her return visits from 1989 until a historical series about the death of Jan Palach called Burning Bush. It is also a story about courage, fear, honesty and friendship and all its trials.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-01-16
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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Overview: Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-01
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Overview: An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-09-16
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Sodankylä Forever
Overview: The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
Overview: From his juvenile, tormented, heroic roles, which made him a global phenomenon, to his darker mature roles, a portrait of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a consummate performer and probably the most successful film star of his generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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In the Shadow of Hollywood
Overview: In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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