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The Polish-Jewish Heritage
Foundation
presents
The Films of Agnieszka Holland
September 24-25 at the Bloor
Cinema. Toronto
Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka
Holland will speak about her life and work at the Polish
Jewish Heritage Foundation"'s "Agnieszka Holland
Film Festival".
The Festival will feature "Europa
Europa" on September 24 and the first Canadian screening
of "Angry Harvest" on September 25, at the
Bloor Cinema. Ms. Holland will be speaking on September
25.
"Angry Harvest"
was Ms. Holland's first feature film in 1981, starring
Armin Mueller-Stahl. It is a drama about a Polish Catholic
farmer harbouring a female Jewish refugee during World
War II, and was nominated for an Oscar.
"Europa Europa"was
her second feature in 1990, a story of Jewish survival
in a Nazi uniform which brought her instant fame and
was nominated for an Oscar.
The same year, she wrote the screenplay
for Andrzej Wajda's "Korczak".
Ms. Holland was born in Poland
in 1948. Her mother was a Polish journalist, and her
Polish-Jewish father, a sociologist and a political
activist. She was only thirteen when her father died
tragically in unexplained circumstances which could
have been a suicide or a political murder by secret
police. In the anti-semitically charged atmosphere of
Poland in the late 1960s, Holland could not study her
chosen craft in her native country - and completed the
FAMU film academy in Prague.
Today, Ms. Holland has garnered
many awards and is internationally acknowledged as an
independent film director of formidable skill. She is
presently finishing a film about the life of Beethoven.
SCHEDULE
Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor Street
West (at Bathurst Subway)
Tickets are $12.00, available one hour before the events
at the box office.
Saturday, September 24 7:30 pm
Opening remarks - Ms Holland.
"Europa, Europa"
Sunday, September 25, 6:00 pm
Ms Holland speaks about her life and work.
"Angry Harvest" inaugural Canadian screening
Q & A to follow.
For more information about the Agnieszka Holland Film
Festival se the attachments, visit our website at www.pjhftoronto.ca,
or contact Krystyna Lagowski at klcreative@rogers.com
or (416) 361-0783.
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