Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland, born in Warsaw on 28 November 1948, the daughter of two journalists, of a Catholic mother who had fought in the 1944 uprising and a Jewish father who was a communist activist, studied cinema at the Prague school, where she was arrested for her support of the dissidents after the Spring of 1968. A graduate in 1971, an assistant to Krzysztof Zanussi, and a member from 1972 to 1981 of Andrzej Wajda's X group, she emigrated to France shortly before the martial law of 1981 and has worked since then in Europe and the United States.

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• CinemaEuropa EuropaHitlerjunge SalomonAgnieszka Holland · 1990Cinema