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Jun 26, 2024 · Polish screenwriter and director Agnieszka Holland has built a long, formidable career, picking up three Oscar nominations for directing Best Foreign Language Film nominees Angry Harvest (1985) and In Darkness (2011) and for adapting the screenplay for Europa Europa (1990) in the process.
Jun 19, 2024 · The two films which made her name were 1985’s Angry Harvest, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and 1990’s Europa, Europa, which also earned her a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Both films tackled aspects of the Holocaust which had not been seen in cinema before.
3 days ago · In 1985 her West German film "Angry Harvest," based on a novel written by Hermann Field and Stanislaw Mierzenski while imprisoned by the Polish government, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards. A few years later her film "Europa Europa," based on the true life story of German-Jewish Solomon Perel, who survived ...
Jun 22, 2024 · These woods provide the setting (though not the filming location) of her 1985 West German production, “Angry Harvest,” about a Polish Catholic farmer who hides a Jewish refugee during the ...
Jun 20, 2024 · In a world marred by the tragedy of displacement—casualties of myriad geopolitical, colonial and economic interests— Green Border’s resonance speaks for itself. Agnieszka Holland’s Green ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Agnieszka Holland discusses the inspiration behind the film, her collaboration with screenwriters Maciej Pisuk and Gabriela Lazarkiewicz, the creative decision behind filming in black and white, and more.
Jun 21, 2024 · Set in October, 2021, after Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko invited refugees to his country with sinister intentions, promising them they could cross the border into Poland and apply for asylum more easily under false pretenses, what follows is a two-and-a-half-hour howl of anguish divided into five chapters.
