Andrzej Munk
Born: 1921-10-16 in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Died: 1961-09-20
Known For: Directing
Biography
Andrzej Munk (16 October 1921 – 20 September 1961) was a Polish film director, screen writer and documentalist. He was one of the most influential artists of the post-Stalinist period in the People's Republic of Poland. His feature films Man on the Tracks (Człowiek na torze, 1956), Eroica (Heroism, 1958), Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście, 1960), and Passenger (Pasażerka 1963), are considered classics of the Polish Film School developed in mid-1950s. He died as a result of a car crash in Kompina in a head-on collision with a truck.
Filmography
2025
- The Passenger Andrzej Munk as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Last Pictures as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Con bravura ... (Director)
1963
- Passenger ... (Director)
1960
- Bad Luck ... (Director)
1959
- Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB ... (Director)
1958
- Eroica ... (Director)
- A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw as Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
1957
- Man on the Tracks ... (Director)
1955
- Men of the Blue Cross ... (Director)
- Sunday Morning as Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
1954
- The Stars Must Burn ... (Writer)
1953
- A Railwayman's Word ... (Writer)
1952
- Peasant Diaries ... (Writer)
- A Fairy Tale ... (Director)
1951
- Maj pracy walki pokoju ... (Director of Photography)
- Destination - Nowa Huta! ... (Director)
- Science Closer to Life ... (Director)
1950
- Young Art ... (Director)