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The Return of Agnieszka H. 2014 Directed by Jacek Petrycki , Krystyna Krauze Powrót Agnieszki H.

A full feature co-production documentary about the famous Polish director Agnieszka Holland and her relationship to Czechoslovakia. „Czech culture was a different mirror to our world.“ Agnieszka Holland in an interview for Czech daily MF Dnes The film has two basic storylines: It depicts the life of Agnieszka Holland during her studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague towards the end of the 1960’s, her friends, her participation in a student strike and her arrest for supporting the dissident movement and anti-state tendencies. The second storyline follows her return visits from 1989 until a historical series about the death of Jan Palach called Burning Bush. It is also a story about courage, fear, honesty and friendship and all its trials.

Country Poland
Production Countries Czech Republic , Poland
Language Polish
Spoken Language Polish
Release Date 16 January 2014
77 mins