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.
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Movies (19)
The Passenger Andrzej Munk
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Last Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Con bravura
Director (Directing)
1972
Passenger
Director (Directing)
1963
Bad Luck
Director (Directing)
1960
Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB
Director (Directing)
1959
Eroica
Director (Directing)
1958
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw
as Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
1958
Man on the Tracks
Director (Directing)
1957
Men of the Blue Cross
Director (Directing)
1955
Sunday Morning
as Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
1955
The Stars Must Burn
Writer (Writing)
1954
A Railwayman's Word
Writer (Writing)
1953
A Fairy Tale
Director (Directing)
1952
Peasant Diaries
Writer (Writing)
1952
Science Closer to Life
Director (Directing)
1951
Destination Nowa Huta!
Director (Directing)
1951
Maj pracy walki pokoju
Director of Photography (Camera)
1951
Young Art
Director (Directing)
1950