Andrzej Munk

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-10-16

Deathday 1961-09-20 (39 years old)

Place of Birth Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

Also Known As Анджей Мунк

Andrzej Munk

Biography

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

Director

1972
Con bravura

as Director

1963
Passenger

as Director

1960
Bad Luck

as Director

1958
Eroica

as Director

1957
Man on the Tracks

as Director

1955
1955
Sunday Morning

as Director

1954
1953
1952
A Fairy Tale

as Director

1952
Peasant Diaries

as Director

1951
1951
1950
Young Art

as Director

Writer

1963
Passenger

as Screenplay

1957
1955
Sunday Morning

as Screenplay

1955
1954
1953
1952
Peasant Diaries

as Writer

1950
Young Art

as Writer

Actor

2000
Last Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

1958
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

as Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)

1955
Sunday Morning

as Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)

Crew

1951
Science Closer to Life

as Cinematography

Camera

1951
Maj pracy walki pokoju

as Director of Photography