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Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland

Polish film director and screenwriter
November 28, 1948 (75 years old)

Green Border

V.O.: Zielona granica
Pol. 2023. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz Włosok. The difficulties encountered by refugees from the Middle East in crossing the border between Belarus and Poland.
Runtime: 147 min.
Pol. 2019. Biography by Agnieszka Holland with James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard. In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine to document the genocide by starvation orchestrated and then denied by Stalin’s regime.
Runtime: 141 min.

Spoor

V.O.: Pokot
Pol. 2017. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot. The life of an old lady who loves animals and lives alone in the mountains is disrupted by a series of murders involving local hunters and poachers.
Runtime: 128 min.
U.S. 2014. Fantasy by Agnieszka Holland with Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams, Carole Bouquet. In Paris, a young pregnant New Yorker suspects her new neighbours of being part of a Satanic cult.
Runtime: 170 min.

Burning Bush

V.O.: Horici ker
Tch. 2013. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Tatiana Pauhofova, Jaroslava Pokorna, Ivan Trojan. In 1969, the family of a student who set himself on fire to protest against the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia accused a government official of defamation.
Runtime: 231 min.

In Darkness

V.O.: W Ciemnosci
Pol. 2011. History by Agnieszka Holland with Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Maria Schrader. In 1944, during the extermination of the Lvov ghetto, a cunning municipal employee protects eleven Jews from Nazi raids by hiding them in the sewers.
Runtime: 134 min.
G.-B. 2006. Biography by Agnieszka Holland with Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode. In 1824 in Vienna, a young conservatory student becomes the copyist and assistant of the composer Ludwig von Beethoven.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2001. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Miranda Otto, William Fichtner, Lothaire Bluteau. Accompanied by her son, who has cancer, a young Canadian woman sets out to meet a Russian healer living in Poland.
U.S. 2001. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Sam Shepard, Elias Koteas, Giovanni Ribisi. A murderer on death row refuses to fight his sentence, despite pressure from his family.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1999. Religious drama by Agnieszka Holland with Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl. A priest with a shaky faith investigates alleged miracles attributed to an Austrian immigrant who died in Chicago.
Runtime: 115 min.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1993. Tale by Agnieszka Holland with Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott. After the death of her parents, a little girl goes to live in her uncle's castle where she discovers a secret garden to which she brings back to life.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1992. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet, Grégoire Colin. Six years after the unexplained disappearance of a nine-year-old boy, a police officer believes he has found him in the form of a teenage prostitute.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1991. Political drama by Agnieszka Holland with Pierre Arditi, Eva Darlan, Jean-Claude Dauphin. The anxieties and uncertainties of a dissident writer who takes criticism to heart.
Runtime: 90 min.
Pol. 1990. Biography by Andrzej Wajda with Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Piotr Kozlowski. In 1939, in Warsaw, the director of an orphanage for Jewish children must face many difficulties during the German invasion.
Runtime: 118 min.
All. 1990. War drama by Agnieszka Holland with Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zichler. A young German Jew who has taken refuge in the Soviet Union is forced to act as an interpreter for the Nazis.
Runtime: 115 min.

The Possessed

V.O.: Les Possédés
Fr. 1988. Drama by Andrzej Wajda with Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Lambert Wilson, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey. An aristocrat who is playing at being a revolutionary has the idea of committing a murder to ensure the cohesion of his group of anarchists.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 1988. Social drama by Agnieszka Holland with Christophe Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley. In Poland in 1981, a militiaman attacks a priest whose sermons remain vigorous despite the declaration of a state of war.
Runtime: 115 min.

Angry Harvest

V.O.: Bittere Ernte
All. 1984. Psychological drama by Agnieszka Holland with Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojtech Pszoniak. Having managed to escape the Nazis, a Jewish woman is taken in by a Polish farmer with whom she has a painful affair.
Runtime: 102 min.

A Love in Germany

V.O.: Eine Liebe in Deutschland
All. 1983. Mores drama by Andrzej Wajda with Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Lysak, Marie-Christine Barrault. In 1941 in a German village, the dramatic consequences of a grocer's affair with a Polish prisoner of war.
Runtime: 107 min.

Interrogation

V.O.: Przesluchanie
Pol. 1982. Political drama by Ryszard Bugajski with Krystyna Janda, Janusz Gajos, Adam Ferency. Arrested for espionage in 1951, a Polish cabaret singer is abused by torturers who want to use her in a political trial.
Runtime: 118 min.

Rough Treatment

V.O.: Bez znieczulenia
Pol. 1978. Psychological drama by Andrzej Wajda with Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn. A great reporter faces a marital failure coupled with professional disgrace.
Runtime: 113 min.

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