Agnieszka Holland Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Director , Screenwriter , Actress more
Polish nationality
Birth November 28, 1948 (Warsaw – Poland)

BIOGRAPHY
Agnieszka Holland attended the prestigious FAMU school in Prague before becoming a director and screenwriter in the early 1970s. She notably collaborated on several occasions with Andrzej Wajda ( Danton , 1982; A Love in Germany , 1983). And she would later participate in the writing of Three Colors – Blue by Kryzsztof Kieslowski .

After attempts at cinema with collective films, she made her first feature film in 1977, Niedzielne dzieci . But it was the next one, Provincial Actors , which brought her to attention in 1980.

She continued to work in Poland until the end of the 1980s. She then left her country and established privileged relations with France where producers financed several of his films, notably Le Plot (1988) and Olivier, Olivier (1991). It was with Europa Europa in 1990 that she achieved her greatest success, inspired by the true story of a young Jew forced during the Second World War to blend into the Nazi ranks to survive.

Agnieszka Holland then received American offers ( The Secret Garden , 1993) without breaking into Hollywood. She tackled historical films like Rimbaud Verlaine (1995) and Washington Square (1998) then returned to more contemporary subjects but always in the dramatic vein with Julie Walking Home in 2002.