Jan Holoubek

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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 Innocence25 Years of Innocence · 2020
25 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.
SupermarketSupermarket · 2012
Supermarket
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 Grams1800 Grams · 2019
1800 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 LoveChopin: Desire for Love · 2002
Chopin: Desire for Love
5.22002
MovieDramaRomance
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
The King of LifeThe King of Life · 2015
The 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. Południk19. Południk · 2003
19. 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.
MolehillMolehill · 2014
Molehill
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 WeatherTomorrow's Weather · 2003
Tomorrow'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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Just FriendshipJust Friendship · 2017
Just Friendship
5.72017
MovieComedy
A multi-layered, touching comedy about a group of friends whose relationships - in the face of life adversities - are exposed to more than one test. Filip risks his face and career for the whim of a crazy collector of Jadźka buttons. The sedate professor refuses his friend's indecent request, but he secretly kidnaps himself in a virtually reckless way. Meanwhile, a close-knit group of friends go to the mountains every year. There they discover a mystery that will change their lives forever. What will they choose? Loyalty or money? Friendship or love? Truth or lie? Own or other luck? Every choice for the heroes of the comedy "Just friendship" means trouble. Who will help them? We know: friends. Because friendship, like no other investment, always pays off.

Director of Photography

Just One NightJust One Night · 2004
Just One Night
2004
MovieDrama
Warsaw at night. Two young people, Eve and Chicor, are walking through the city after a wild party. Both have had something to drink. The girl coquets her partner, provokes with the promise of a "reward" for a nice evening. Chicor accepts the challenge and walks Eve home. The girl invites the boy to her apartment. A few minutes pass drinking wine and increasingly frivolous flirting. Everything seems to be moving towards a rapprochement. But this night will not end with easy, non-committal sex. Both parties are hiding under different masks. Eve is amused, seems confident and consistent in her ambiguous game with her boyfriend. Sometimes she resists her admirer, at other times she provokes and tempts him again. Chicory is intrigued by the girl's behavior, but slowly realizes that Eve is not just another prey, a woman for one night.

Director of Photography

Na WspólnejNa Wspólnej · 2003
Na Wspólnej
4.72003
SeriesSoap
Na Wspólnej is a Polish soap opera. It has been running since 2003 on the TVN channel as its flagship primetime weekday soap opera. It is loosely based on the German production Unter Uns and it follows the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment block in Wspólna Street, Warsaw. Episodes tend to last around 20 minutes. It is a Polish version of the Hungarian "Barátok közt". The series is shot almost entirely in Warsaw and produced by the Polish branch of Freemantle Media. On 9 September 2008 it celebrated its 1000th episode; "Na Wspólnej" was the fourth Polish television series ever to achieve such status. A special episode was broadcast in which characters from some other of TVN's most popular shows visited Wspólna Street.

Director of Photography