Andrzej Munk
Known for Directing
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
Bad Luck
1960
Director
Eroica
1958
Director
Men of the Blue Cross
1955
Director
Men of the Blue Cross
1955
Writer
Con bravura
1972
Director
Passenger
1963
Director
Passenger
1963
Screenplay
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
1958
as Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
1958
Director
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
1958
Screenplay
Man on the Tracks
1957
Director
Man on the Tracks
1957
Writer
Last Pictures
2000
as Self (archive footage)
The Stars Must Burn
1954
Director
The Stars Must Burn
1954
Writer
A Railwayman's Word
1953
Director
A Railwayman's Word
1953
Writer
Young Art
1950
Director
Young Art
1950
Writer
Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB
1959
Director