Andrzej Munk

Director, Writer, Actor

October 16, 1921 — September 20, 1961 (39 years)
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
    Passenger1963
  • Bad Luck
    Bad Luck1960
  • Eroica
    Eroica1958
  • Man on the Tracks
    Man on the Tracks1957
  • Men of the Blue Cross
    Men of the Blue Cross1955

Filmography

1963
Passenger · as Screenplay
1957
1955