Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik (born 28 December 1972) is a Polish director and

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. She has directed TV series including ''

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'', ''Axis Mundi'', and '' Absentia.'' Her debut film feature as director, ''

Bark! ''Bark!'' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it wa ...

'', was in competition at

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. Adamik and Olga Chajdas shared the award for Best TV Show at the Polish Film Awards for directing drama ''The Pack''. A ''Hollywood Reporter'' article listed her among "four of the country's most prominent directors", naming her alongside the fellow Polish directors she worked on for conspiracy thriller series ''

'', which was

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's first Polish original series.

Personal life

Adamik was born in Warsaw, the daughter of Polish film director

Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland (; born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her cultural and political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as an assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanuss ...

and Slovak opera director Laco Adamík. Her aunt is film director Magdalena Łazarkiewicz. She graduated in

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from the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. She

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as a

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in 2012.

Career

Adamik debuted in the film industry in 1993. She has worked as a storyboard artist on an array of movies, including '' In Darkness'', '' Copying Beethoven'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Trapped'', '' Julie Walking Home'', ''Angel of Death'', '' Hearts in Atlantis'', '' Angel Eyes'', '' Golden Dreams'', '' Battlefield Earth'', ''Na koniec swiata'', '' The Third Miracle'', ''

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'', '' Beloved'', '' Wicked'', '' Polish Wedding'', '' Washington Square'', and ''

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''. ''1983'', a Polish-language TV series directed by Adamik and

, debuted on Netflix in 2018 as the streaming service's first Polish-language original production.

Filmography

Film

References

External links

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