Directing
Jan Holoubek
Born March 4, 1978 · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (age 48)
Jan Holoubek is a Polish director and cinematographer. He is best known for directing the Netflix series The Mire (2018–2024), High Water (2024), and Heweliusz (2025).
Known For
25 Years of Innocence · 202025 Years of Innocence
★ 7.82020
MovieDramaHistory
Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.
Supermarket · 2012Supermarket
★ 5.32012
MovieThriller
The Wareckis, an average married couple, stop at a store returning home on New Year’s Eve. The husband goes shopping, the wife stays in the car and waits for him, hours go by but he does not return, in fact, nobody can find him anywhere... A series of seemingly minor events transforms these simple characters’ lives into a gripping horror-thriller, a wild and disturbing image of the impact of consumerism.
1800 Grams · 20191800 Grams
★ 6.02019
MovieComedyDrama
A touching story about the most important human matters: love, loneliness, sacrifice and courage, around the life of Ewa, a woman who works looking for families for orphaned children.
Chopin: Desire for Love · 2002Chopin: Desire for Love
★ 5.22002
MovieDramaRomance
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
The King of Life · 2015The King of Life
★ 5.12015
MovieDramaComedy
Edward is a perpetually irritable man - snappish with his wife, impatient with his daughter, and distant from his elderly father - until a serious accident jolts him into abandoning his old life to rediscover his family and the world around him. Without traveling anywhere new, he remains in the same apartment and neighborhood, but sees everything and everyone with fresh, contagious happiness.
19. Południk · 200319. Południk
2003
MovieComedyTV Movie
The conspiracy story takes place in Poland, at the beginning of the 21st century. in 2003, Poles decide in a referendum not to join the EU, and in 2007 Bartlomiej Czop, a demagogue and primitive, devoid of education and personal culture, is elected president of Poland. He begins his tenure in office by brutally ejecting ex-president Kazimierz Czechmeszynski from the Belvedere when the latter wants to hand over the insignia of power to him. He then insults the Russian and German ambassadors. He also puts his crime-fighting program into practice, liquidating several hundred convicted criminals on high sentences in a faked accident at a military training ground.
Molehill · 2014Molehill
★ 1.02014
Movie
Two men spend the shortest night and the longest day of summer together on military molehills. Their dreams are overseen by the White Bear, the Mole, and the Horse. Post-injury rehabilitation are subject to change, especially wen you psycho-physical state is the most important thing to you…
Tomorrow's Weather · 2003Tomorrow's Weather
★ 6.92003
MovieDramaComedy
A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.
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Chopin: Desire for Love · 2002Chopin: Desire for Love
★ 5.22002
MovieDramaRomance
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Second Unit Director
Piksele · 2009Piksele
★ 5.82009
MovieDramaComedy
A single mobile phone links disparate lives as mishaps take it from a tabloid journalist, to a rehab facility, a war veteran — and beyond.
Director of Photography
Medics · 2012Medics
★ 7.02012
SeriesDrama
Medics, also known under the original title Lekarze, is a Polish medical drama which premiered on 3 September 2012 on TVN.
Director of Photography
Converts · 2007Converts
★ 7.92007
SeriesCrimeDrama
Director of Photography
Public Prosecutor · 2015Public Prosecutor
★ 6.82015
SeriesCrime
District attorney Kazimierz Proch with policeman Witold Kielak tries to figure out what happened with his family.
Director of Photography
Męskie-żeńskie · 2003Męskie-żeńskie
2003
Series
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