Agnieszka Holland

No Polish female director has achieved such cinematic success as Agnieszka Holland. She is an icon and – as younger generations sometimes call her – the godmother of an entire generation of filmmakers. In this authorised biography, she reveals the truth about her life for the first time.
What was it like to work and create in a film world dominated by men? What was her childhood like after the tragic death of her father? Why, among so many talented Polish filmmakers, did she pursue a career in the West? How did she, as a single emigrant mother, end up in Paris? How did she manage to break into Hollywood, under the wing of celebrities like Francis Ford Coppola?
Film journalist Karolina Pasternak, thanks to her extraordinary relationship with Agnieszka Holland, has been able to write a biography of the director full of unknown and surprising facts.
Karolina Pasternak is a long-time journalist at Newsweek, a lecturer, and an editor-in-chief. Her work has been published in leading Polish magazines. She has interviewed prominent figures in world cinema, including Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg.