Andrzej Munk

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Andrzej Munk

Directing October 16, 1921

Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

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 pe…

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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

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  1. 2025
    The Passenger Andrzej Munk

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2000
    Last Pictures

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  3. 1972
    Con bravura

    Movie Director

  4. 1963
    Passenger

    Movie Director

  5. 1960
    Bad Luck

    Movie Director

  6. 1959
    Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB

    Movie Director

  7. 1958
    Eroica

    Movie Director

  8. 1958
    A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

    Movie Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)

  9. 1957
    Man on the Tracks

    Movie Director

  10. 1955
    Men of the Blue Cross

    Movie Director

  11. 1955
    Sunday Morning

    Movie Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)

  12. 1954
    The Stars Must Burn

    Movie Writer

  13. 1953
    A Railwayman's Word

    Movie Writer

  14. 1952
    Peasant Diaries

    Movie Writer

  15. 1952
    A Fairy Tale

    Movie Director

  16. 1951
    Destination - Nowa Huta!

    Movie Director

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  1. 1951
    Science Closer to Life

    Movie Director

  2. 1951
    Maj pracy walki pokoju

    Movie Director of Photography

  3. 1950
    Young Art

    Movie Director

  4. It Began in Spain

    Movie Director