Andrzej Munk

Birthday: 1921-10-16
Deathday: 1961-09-20
Birthplace: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Zaczelo sie w Hiszpanii
1972-07-01 Con bravura
1963-09-20 Passenger
1960-04-04 Bad Luck
1959-12-01 Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB
1958-01-04 Eroica
1958-01-01 A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
1957-01-17 Man on the Tracks
1955-10-12 Men of the Blue Cross
1955-03-05 Sunday Morning
1954-07-01 The Stars Must Burn
1953-01-01 A Railwayman's Word
1952-01-01 A Fairy Tale
1952-01-01 Peasant Diaries
1951-01-01 Science Closer to Life
1951-01-01 Destination Nowa Huta!
1950-12-31 Young Art