Andrzej Munk

Born: 1921-10-16

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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Sunday Morning

as Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
Released: 1955-03-05

Short propaganda film. Warsaw's post-war reconstruction as seen through the eyes of the...

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A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

as Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
Released: 1958-01-01

Little heroine, a music school student, wanders through the backstreets of Warsaw's Old Town and...

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