Jerzy Passendorfer
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-04-08 (80 years old)
Deathday
2003-02-20
Place of Birth
Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Also known As
Ежи Пассендорфер
Jerzy Passendorfer
Biography
Jerzy Passendorfer (April 8, 1923 in Wilno – February 20, 2003 in Skolimów, near Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II,and member of parliament. Passendorfer graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national combatant" genre in the 1960s. As well as many films he directed the popular TV serial Janosik. Passendorfer served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, from 1993 to 1997 on the Democratic Left Alliance list.
Acting
1955
as Hulewicz's Assistant (uncredited)
1949
as Secret University Student (uncredited)
1967
as Film Director (uncredited)
1969
as Bartender ("Double Nelson") (uncredited)
Production
1951
as First Assistant Director
1959
as Director
1950
as Screenplay
1950
as Director
1950
as Idea
1950
as Screenplay
1950
as Director
1972
as Director
1974
as Director
1969
as Director
1960
as Director
1958
as First Assistant Director
1962
as Director
1963
as Director
1954
as Assistant Director
1954
as First Assistant Director
1962
as Screenplay
1969
as Screenplay
1969
as Dialogue
1967
as Director
1969
as Screenplay
1969
as Dialogue
1959
as Director
1970
as Director
1970
as Supervising Art Director
1970
as Supervising Art Director
1955
as First Assistant Director
1963
as Director
1966
as Director
1964
as Director
1957
as Director
1986
as Director
1986
as Screenplay
1975
as Writer
1969
as Director
1975
as Director
1971
as Director
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