Agnieszka Holland

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Agnieszka Holland at the Berlinale 2017
Agnieszka Holland (2014)

Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw ) is a Polish film director and screenwriter .

life and work

Holland studied film directing at the Prague Film Faculty . She began her career as assistant director to Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda . She wrote several scripts for Wajda, including based on the novel of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth for Eine Liebe in Deutschland , and worked with Jean-Claude Carrière on Wajda's film Danton .

With her directorial work Fieber (Gorączka) she won the main prize at the Polish Film Festival in 1981 and she was represented in the competition at the Berlinale 1981 . Your leading actress Barbara Grabowska won the Silver Bear for best actress. Shortly before martial law was imposed in Poland in 1981 , Agnieszka Holland emigrated to Paris , where she still lives today. Her first directorial work after emigrating, the German production Bittere Harvest with Armin Mueller-Stahl in the lead role, was nominated for an Oscar in 1986 for best foreign language film . Her best-known film in Germany is Hitler Youth Salomon , which earned her a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and an Oscar nomination for best screenplay. When the jury that made the German nominations for the Oscar refused to nominate the film, this sparked controversy in Germany; she was even accused of anti-Semitism by producer Artur Brauner .

In 1993 Holland made the leap to the USA when Francis Ford Coppola produced her film The Secret Garden based on the children's book of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett . Since then she has been filming there with American actors, but as with The Healer with European production capital .

In 2014 she directed Rosemary's Baby, a remake of the classic film Rosemary's Baby .

For the feature film Die Spur , a film adaptation of the novel The Song of the Bats by Olga Tokarczuk , Holland received an invitation to compete at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017 . The film focuses on a former engineer and passionate astrologer (portrayed by Agnieszka Mandat ), who is independently investigating a series of murders against local hunters in her village in the Sudetes . For this, Holland received the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale .

Agnieszka Holland is the sister of the director Magdalena Łazarkiewicz . Her father Henryk Holland was a socialist sociologist and publicist. She is married to the Slovak film and theater director Laco Adamík . Their daughter Katarzyna Adamik (* 1972) is also a film director.

Filmography (selection)

Holland's star on the Walk of Fame in Łódź
At the presentation of the film Die Spur

B = script, R = director, D = actor

Awards

  • On March 21, 2011 Agnieszka Holland was honored with the Commander-in-Chief with Star (Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazdą) of the Order of Polonia Restituta .
  • On February 24, 2017, Agnieszka Holland was awarded the Silver Bear - Alfred Bauer Prize for the film " Die Spur " ("Pokot" / "Spoor") at the 67th Berlinale. The award recognizes a feature film that opens up new perspectives.
  • 2019: Viadrina Prize from the European University Viadrina

Web links

Commons : Agnieszka Holland  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the film at filmweb.pl (Polish; accessed on December 16, 2016).
  2. ↑ Andrzej Wajda odznaczony Orderem Orła Białego .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gazeta.pl, March 21, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wiadomosci.gazeta.pl  
  3. ↑ Berlinale Archive 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Agnieszka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland