---
name: "Katarzyna Sobańska"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katarzyna-sobanska"
fi1m_id: "katarzyna-sobanska"
imdb_id: "nm0811723"
tmdb_id: 88206
wikidata_id: "Q114123470"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-23T20:53:57.794670+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Katarzyna Sobańska

## Identity

Katarzyna Sobańska

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/katarzyna-sobanska
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** katarzyna-sobanska
- **IMDb ID:** nm0811723
- **TMDB ID:** 88206
- **Wikidata ID:** Q114123470
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114123470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88206

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Katarzyna Sobanska, Katarzyna Sobanska-Strzalkowska, Katarzyna Sobańska-Strzałkowska
- **Frequently works with:** [Paweł Pawlikowski](https://film.one/person/pawe-pawlikowski.md), [Agata Kulesza](https://film.one/person/agata-kulesza.md), [Ewa Puszczyńska](https://film.one/person/ewa-puszczynska.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 85 (2), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 84 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Music 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $34m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114123470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88206

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cold War*](https://film.one/film/cold-war.md) (85)
- **Apple TV:** [*Ida*](https://film.one/film/ida.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Katarzyna Sobańska is a Polish production designer. She graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Katowice branch) and teaches scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where she also studied. She began working in film and television production design in the late 1990s.

Sobańska frequently collaborates with Marcel Sławiński. Their credits include production design on *The Mill and the Cross* (2011), *In Darkness* (2011), *Ida* (2013), *Cold War* (2018) and *Fatherland* (2026), the last two directed by Paweł Pawlikowski. She has received multiple Polish Film Awards (Eagles) for best production design, including for *Ida*, *Filip* (2022) and *Chopin, Chopin!* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, asp.katowice.pl, screendaily.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fatherland* (2026), Fi1m 80, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/fatherland.md)
- *Cold War* (2018), Fi1m 85, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/cold-war.md)
- *Ida* (2013), Fi1m 85, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/ida.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Doll* (2026), Production Design — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-doll-2026.md)
- *Fatherland* (2026), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/fatherland.md)
- *The Treasurer* (2025), Production Design
- *Chopin, a Sonata in Paris* (2025), Production Design
- *Budapest Diaries* (2025), Production Design
- *Fin del mundo?* (2024), Production Design, Interior Designer
- *Filip* (2023), Production Design, Interior Designer
- *Dangerous Men* (2023), Production Design, Interior Designer
- *Fools* (2022), Set Designer
- *Fucking Bornholm* (2022), Production Design
- *The Musicians* (2021), Production Design
- *Erotica 2022* (2020), Production Design
- *The Hater* (2020), Production Design
- *Cold War* (2018), Production Design — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/cold-war.md)
- *United States of Love* (2016), Production Design
- *Close-Ups* (2014), Production Design, Set Decoration
- *Ida* (2013), Production Design — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/ida.md)
- *In Darkness* (2011), as Art Direction
- *The Mill and the Cross* (2011), Production Design
- *Never Say Never* (2009), Set Designer
- *Ekipa* (2007), series, Production Design
- *Angelus* (2001), Production Design
- *Na koniec świata* (1999), as Set Decoration · Production Design
- *Object Permanence*, Production Design

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