DIRECTORS

Wojciech Jerzy Has

Film director, screenwriter and teacher. He was born on April 1, 1925 in Kraków and died on October 3, 2000 in Łódź. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. After completing the Essential Filmmaking Course in Kraków (1946), he began working at the Warsaw Documentary...

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Jerzy Hoffman

Film, theatre and television director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on March 15, 1932 in Kraków. In 1940, he was deported to Siberia; he returned to Poland after the war. A graduate of the Directing Department of the Moscow VGIK (1955). As a director, he made his...

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Agnieszka Holland

Film director, stage and television writer, actress, translator. She was born on November 28, 1948 in Warsaw. She graduated from the Directing Department at FAMU in Prague (1971). Her diploma film was Grzech Boga/ Jesus Christ's Sin (1970), inspired by the prose of Isaac...

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