Andrzej Munk
Directing
- Born
- October 16, 1921 · Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
- Died
- September 20, 1961 (age 39)
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
Passenger
September 20, 1963
Bad Luck
April 4, 1960
Eroica
January 4, 1958
Man on the Tracks
January 17, 1957
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
January 1, 1958
Men of the Blue Cross
October 12, 1955
Sunday Morning
March 5, 1955
A Railwayman's Word
January 1, 1953
Destination - Nowa Huta!
January 1, 1951
The Stars Must Burn
July 1, 1954
A Fairy Tale
January 1, 1952
Peasant Diaries
January 1, 1952
Behind the camera18
- 1972Con bravura Director
- 1963Passenger Director, Screenplay
- 1960Bad Luck Director
- 1959Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB Director
- 1958Eroica Director
- 1958A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw Director, Screenplay
- 1957Man on the Tracks Director, Writer
- 1955Men of the Blue Cross Director, Writer
- 1955Sunday Morning Director, Screenplay
- 1954The Stars Must Burn