Andrzej Munk
- Directing
- October 16, 1921 · Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
- September 20, 1961
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Passenger Andrzej Munk · Self
- Last Pictures · Self
- Con bravura · Director
- Passenger · Director, Screenplay
- Bad Luck · Director
- Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB · Director
- Eroica · Director
- A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw · Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited), Director
- Man on the Tracks · Director, Writer
- Men of the Blue Cross · Director, Writer
- Sunday Morning · Sleeping Passenger (uncredited), Director
- The Stars Must Burn · Writer, Director
- A Railwayman's Word · Writer, Director
- A Fairy Tale · Director
- Peasant Diaries · Writer, Director
- Science Closer to Life · Cinematography, Director
- Destination - Nowa Huta! · Director
- Maj pracy walki pokoju · Cinematography
- Young Art · Director, Writer
- It Began in Spain · Director