Andrzej Munk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-10-16 (40 years old)

Deathday

1961-09-20

Place of Birth

Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

Andrzej Munk

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.

Acting

2000

Last Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

1958

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

as Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)

1955

Sunday Morning

as Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)

2025

The Passenger Andrzej Munk

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1963

Passenger

as Director

1952

A Fairy Tale

as Director

1960

Bad Luck

as Director

1958

Eroica

as Director

1957

1955

1952

1952

Peasant Diaries

as Director

1951

Science Closer to Life

as Cinematography

1951

1953

1955

Sunday Morning

as Director

1972

Con bravura

as Director

1963

Passenger

as Screenplay

1954

1955

Sunday Morning

as Screenplay

1950

Young Art

as Director

1951

1953

1954

1957

1950

Young Art

as Writer

1951

Maj pracy walki pokoju

as Director of Photography

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