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Jan Holoubek

Jan Holoubek

Directing

Biography

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

Na Wspólnej
4.7

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.

Na Wspólnej

2003
The Mire
6.8

The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

The Mire

2018
Medics
7.0

Medics, also known under the original title Lekarze, is a Polish medical drama which premiered on 3 September 2012 on TVN.

Medics

2012
Raven
7.1

Adam Kruk, a 40 year old police officer addicted to painkillers and psychotropic drugs, returns to the town he grew up in to find the paedophile who abused his friend Slawek years ago. Once there, he is unexpectedly called to investigate a new case: the kidnapping of a powerful man's grandson, which he undertakes to help set him free from his past mistakes. As he was unable to protect Slawek, he sees this case as a second chance to protect a child and an opportunity for justice. Adam must control the darkest corners of his mind to solve the kidnapping and as the case unfolds, he discovers answers which will reveal an unexpected link between these two cases.

Raven

2018
Heweliusz
7.3

After a catastrophic ferry disaster, the off-duty captain seeks answers and justice for those who lost their lives — and those they left behind.

Heweliusz

2025
Sins of the Fathers
6.7

A retired policeman and a former criminal must face their past when their daughters' lives are suddenly put at risk in this gangster thriller shining a light on the dark and dangerous activities of the Warsaw Mafia.

Sins of the Fathers

2019
High Water
6.8

In 1997, scientists and local government officials in Wrocław face life-and-death decisions when a destructive flood wave threatens the city.

High Water

2022
Public Prosecutor
6.8

District attorney Kazimierz Proch with policeman Witold Kielak tries to figure out what happened with his family.

Public Prosecutor

2015
Converts
7.9

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Converts

2007
Naznaczony
4.4

The life of a math teacher and his loved ones turns into hell when a mysterious man reminds him of his former sin. What would you do, if you could decide about the punishment for your Persecutor, someone who hurt you or the people close to you? Would you seize the opportunity to make your own punishment? Sometimes judges can be accused. Some day everyone will answer for their sins. Some day has finally come!

Naznaczony

2009
1800 Grams
6.1

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
Chopin: Desire for Love
5.2

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

Chopin: Desire for Love

2002
25 Years of Innocence
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
Tomorrow's Weather
6.8

A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.

Tomorrow's Weather

2003
Supermarket
5.3

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.

Supermarket

2012
Doppelgänger
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
The Crown Witness
5.1

Blacha, an ex-middleman in the criminal underground, is the key witness in an enormous Pruszkow mafia bust. As such he is kept under lock and key hidden away from the world. Intent on getting an interview with the ex-gangster is Marcin Kruk, whose pregnant wife was collateral damage in a mafia car-bomb several years back with Blacha being his main suspect. Fortunately Blacha holds Marcin's journalistic work in very high regard, hence agrees to an exclusive interview in a secluded hotel in the Hel peninsula. There he retreads his criminal life...

The Crown Witness

2007
Superproduction
4.7

An independent film critic is commissioned to write a blockbuster screenplay in which the girlfriend of an influential gangster is to play. Criticising is easier than creating. The critic tries to save his skin with the help of a girl, a proofreader from the editorial office.

Superproduction

2002
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Wśród nocnej ciszy

The King of Life
5.1

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.

The King of Life

2015