Jan Holoubek

Directing

Jan Holoubek

Born 1978-03-04 · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

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).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

25 Years of Innocence poster
7.8

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.

25 Years of Innocence

2020

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In occupied Poland 1943, German official Martin Wolff is sent to a remote village to investigate the disappearance of a Jewish lawyer. His arrival unsettles the fragile order between scarred villagers, corrupt collaborators, and Nazi authorities, unearthing a web of betrayal and greed tied to whispers of the lawyer’s hidden fortune. Yet as the village’s darkest truths come to light, Wolff’s search may be hiding more than it reveals.

Wild Wild East

2026

1800 Grams poster
6.0

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.

1800 Grams

2019

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The year 1863 the end of the January Uprising - against the Russians, its phase of collapse. One of the last insurgents, Andrzej Winrych, disguises himself as a peasant and smuggles weapons. However, he is noticed by a Russian patrol. The witness of the unfolding tragedy is a Polish peasant.

Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces

2000

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The year 1863 the end of the January Uprising - against the Russians, its phase of collapse. One of the last insurgents, Andrzej Winrych, disguises himself as a peasant and smuggles weapons. However, he is noticed by a Russian patrol. The witness of the unfolding tragedy is a Polish peasant.

Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces

2000

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Alternative History of Poland, 2014. A pair of Swedes come to Warsaw to make a documentary about the life of young people in socialist realities.

Postcards from the Republic of Absurd

2014

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Alternative History of Poland, 2014. A pair of Swedes come to Warsaw to make a documentary about the life of young people in socialist realities.

Postcards from the Republic of Absurd

2014

Doppelgänger poster
3.5

Hans and Jan Bitner live on opposite sides of the iron curtain. Hans lives in France, he leads a quiet life. Bitner is a Pole, involved in the fight for a free Poland. Their lives are different, but there is one detail that links them.

Doppelgänger

2023

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Słońce i cień

2007

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Escape from the Dark Valley

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A Polish comedy fantasy about three friends who mysteriously develop super powers on a camping trip.

Week On One Plot

2012