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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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2025
The Passenger Andrzej Munk
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Last Pictures
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1972
Con bravura
Movie Director
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1963
Passenger
Movie Director
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1960
Bad Luck
Movie Director
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1959
Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB
Movie Director
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1958
Eroica
Movie Director
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1958
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
Movie Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
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1957
Man on the Tracks
Movie Director
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1955
Men of the Blue Cross
Movie Director
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1955
Sunday Morning
Movie Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
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1954
The Stars Must Burn
Movie Writer
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1953
A Railwayman's Word
Movie Writer
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1952
Peasant Diaries
Movie Writer
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1952
A Fairy Tale
Movie Director
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1951
Destination - Nowa Huta!
Movie Director
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1951
Science Closer to Life
Movie Director
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1951
Maj pracy walki pokoju
Movie Director of Photography
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1950
Young Art
Movie Director
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It Began in Spain
Movie Director